EASTER IS COMING! Book Review [& Giveaway]  

Easter is coming! Do you have a basket full of beautiful Easter books ready to read to your little ones? If you’re still hunting, check out this review of Tama Fortner’s board book, EASTER IS COMING. It may be exactly what you’re searching for.

The Author

Tama Fortner is an ECPA award-winning and bestselling author with over fifty titles to her credit, including God, I Feel Sad, which I reviewed on the blog about a year ago. She has collaborated with some of the biggest names in Christian publishing to create inspirational books for children, teens, and adults. But she says her greatest accomplishments happen in a happy little home on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her family and a feisty little pup who is convinced he’s people too. To learn more, visit www.TamaFortner.com.

The Illustrator and the Illustrations

Wazza Uyen Pink Nguyen (Wazza Pink) does a fantastic job illustrating EASTER IS COMING! Wazza resides in her hometown of Ha Noi, Viet Nam. She loved to read comics and picture books ever since she was a kid, and was also excited to mimic the styles of her favorite comic book artists.

I love the illustrations! Soft shades of green, pink, yellow, and blue fill the pages, with a dash of purple here and there. The book begins with the illustration of a modern-day woman reading to her two small children as they swing under a tree. The book ends with the same scene, but now a man with a guitar has joined them, and the family is enjoying a picnic under the tree.

All of the in-between pages depict scenes from the Bible.

About the EASTER IS COMING Book

“Easter is coming! It’s the day we celebrate God’s love. This special day comes every spring, but its beginning was long, long ago . . . before the world was even created.”

This is one reason I love this book so much. It begins with Adam and Eve, the sin brought into the world, and how God always had a plan to “make things right again.”

Each of the 2-page spreads contains about two sentences of unrhyming text telling about a specific moment in the Bible. Also, on each spread is the refrain, “Easter is coming!” This repeated phrase is paired with something specific about the text on that page.

For example, in the section about Adam and Eve, it says: “Adam and Eve didn’t know, but we know . . . Easter is coming!”

Almost every page mentions how people and animals did not know, but we know Easter is coming. The exceptions to this pattern are the mentioning of how Jesus knew and then another page shows after His resurrection, His friends then knew. And the last page mentions how “God always knew, and now you know too—”

The book shows Adam and Eve, the prophets in general, the nativity, Jesus’ ministry, His triumphal entry, washing His disciples’ feet, praying in the garden, three crosses on a distant hill, men and women praying, and Jesus outside the tomb.

Recommendation and Giveaway

I absolutely recommend this excellent book! The gospel is presented in a way that children will understand. This would be a wonderful book to read to children at Easter events, at church, and at home.

This 24-page board book with its padded cover is durable enough for toddlers, but children as old as seven will enjoy it as well.

Additionally, you can find a little bonus online content for parents relating to this book at B & H Publishing Group.

They and the author also have provided an autographed copy of this book for one of you. Yay! Thank you, Tama and B & H!

We’ll randomly select a winner from my blog’s email subscriber list (for U.S. residents only) on March 8, 2024. You can get an extra entry by sharing this post on social media. Just let me know below where you shared it.

As always, there are no charges of any kind to the winner.

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from the publisher. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255.

WINNER, WINNER! Congratulations to Madilyn Joy. Your email address was drawn from this blog’s email subscriber list as the winner of this delightful book. I’ll be emailing you from this website to inquire where you’d like me to mail the book. Yay!

As a freelance writer, Sally Matheny’s writing is published in worldwide, national, regional, online and print publications including Appleseeds, Clubhouse Jr., Homeschooling Today, and The Old Schoolhouse. As a blogger and speaker, Sally encourages parents and grandparents to live victorious and to tell the next generation wondrous things. Connect with her on several social media sites, but her favorite hangouts are at SallyMatheny.com and Pinterest.

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