Duck & Goose, Here Comes the Easter Bunny!

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Duck & Goose, Here Comes the Easter Bunny! (Duck & Goose)

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Duck & Goose are back! New York Times bestselling author and illustrator Tad Hills brings our favorite feathered friends out to celebrate spring in this sturdy board book. Duck & Goose have lots of ideas about how to find the Easter Bunny, but will they succeed? Preschoolers won't be able to resist this latest board book featuring Duck & Goose, lots of colorful...more

Board Book, 22 pages

Published January 24th 2012 by Schwartz & Wade

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Mar 19, 2013 jacky rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: holidays-seasons, lib-lew, board-books

A cute little story. Natalie likes it and asks to hear it. More fun if you already know Duck and Goose from any of their other books. Best part is when Goose says, "Maybe."

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Feb 14, 2012 Sarah rated it 4 of 5 stars

I love Duck & Goose; here is their Easter story. They try to find a place to hide so they can watch for the Easter bunny. Really adorable!

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Mar 17, 2013 Kristin Fletcher-spear rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: animals, charlie-2013, fiction, humor, picture-book, preschool

overdrive app eBook. nothing to do with the story itself, but I should download the book not stream it in the app.

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Mar 19, 2012 Megan rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: finished-2012, picture-books

Duck & goose try to hide so they can see the Easter Bunny, but the bunny is too wily for them.

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Mar 03, 2012 Carole rated it 5 of 5 stars

Perfect for toddlers!

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Apr 06, 2013 Amanda Allen rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Cute!

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Mar 31, 2013 Lindsey rated it 4 of 5 stars

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As adorable as all the other Duck & Goose books, in this installment, Duck & Goose are trying to find a place to hide and watch the Easter Bunny deliver his goodies. They go through some silly choices but (inevitably) fall asleep before the big moment.

A cute, non-religious Easter book with great illustrations.

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About Tad Hills

“Whenever I picture myself [as a child],” says Tad Hills, “I am doing art. I spent a lot of time on my own making things, drawing, and painting.” Hills was not consciously trying to become an artist, rather his motives were innocent and pure. “I liked making things,” he says.

As a graduate of Skidmore College in New York with a degree in art, Hills describes himself as the ultimate freelancer. He’s...more “Whenever I picture myself [as a child],” says Tad Hills, “I am doing art. I spent a lot of time on my own making things, drawing, and painting.” Hills was not consciously trying to become an artist, rather his motives were innocent and pure. “I liked making things,” he says.

As a graduate of Skidmore College in New York with a degree in art, Hills describes himself as the ultimate freelancer. He’s done some acting, made jewelry, makes fake teeth for stage productions, dabbled in interior renovation, and illustrated book jackets for adult trade books. But Hills’ break into children’s publishing coincided with his wife Lee’s new position as the art director for Simon and Schuster’s children’s book division. “Lee used to ask me to try illustrating some books she couldn’t find an illustrator for,” Hills says. When Lee moved to Random House to start her own imprint with long-time friend and associate, Ann Schwartz, she encouraged Hills to write his own picture books. “I started with four stories,” says Hills. His break out book, Duck and Goose (Schwartz and Wade, 2006) was one of them.

The idea for Duck and Goose started with only a title—The Silly Goose, the Odd Duck and the Good Egg. As Hills developed the story, he realized his egg would have to be rather large to support Duck and Goose so they could hatch it. Hills also had to consider what would hatch out of such a large egg. A dinosaur? An ostrich? Additionally, Hills floated the title by his son’s kindergarten class and was rewarded with blank stares. Hills took the hint and changed his egg to a ball, and changed the title.

“For me, the writing is really difficult. I stare at a blank page for hours,” he says. “When Lee comes home and asks me about my day, I say it was okay. I wrote one sentence. . .But when I’m in the zone, I literally hear the dialogue between [Duck and Goose]. They were telling me what they wanted to say! That is the best feeling. That is when it’s not work. It’s fun!”

Hills paints with water-soluble oil paint on paper, using colored pencils for the last details. Although Hills’ Duck and Goose characters look simple enough, he drew hundreds of ducks and geese before finding a style with which he was comfortable. “The first ones [I drew] were older looking,” he says. “They looked like cigar-smoking tough guys.” Over a matter of months, Hills finally pared down Duck and Goose to their essential elements—circular heads, long rectangular legs, triangular feet, and door-shaped beaks. “When I apply the eyebrow,” he says, “I can express what Duck is feeling.”

As Hills’ two children grow, he finds himself drawn to how kids treat each other. “I didn’t tolerate meanness or injustice as a kid,” he says. In Duck, Duck, Goose (Schwartz and Wade, 2007), Hills creates a friendship triangle by introducing a new duck named Thistle. Together Duck, Goose, and Thistle give Hills’ observations a voice and provide several conversation starters for parents and children.

Hills writes from his home in Brooklyn, New York. Some days he doesn’t write at all, but tries to stay receptive to what he’s experiencing. “Most of my ideas come to me when I’m not looking,” he says. “It’s hard to get yourself to a point where ideas are out there and you can grab them.”

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