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Tiny Treats for Easter Eggs and Baskets

Our early, warm spring has melted the snow away, and is turning brown lawns into green grass ringed with borders of crocus and daffodils.  Children will be outside for this year’s Easter egg hunts, finding eggs under leafy bushes or hidden among the clover and violets. Dragonwings is decorated for the season with egg trees, [...]

Easter Treats for Kids

More great Easter ideas – books!

Here are some of the great Easter books available at Dragonwings: This gift set includes four of Beatrix Potter’s classic little books: The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher,The Tale of Tom Kitten, and The Tale of Peter Rabbit. This not classic (but very funny) Easter tale finds T. Rex filling [...]

Enjoy Board Books!

So sometimes the youngest ones can be the hardest to find gifts for, but don’t worry, Dragonwings has you covered. Board books are not your typical picture books, but rather have thicker, more durable pages. They are able to stand up to more “love” from our little “readers”. They are like picture books, though, in [...]

Bunny’s Easter Egg

Bunny’s Easter EggWritten and Illustrated byAnne Mortimer Bunny’s been up all night, busy with hiding all the Easter eggs. Now the only thing she wants is to take a nap and get some rest! Each place she tries to nap, however, has something wrong and she cannot get to sleep. In her quest to find [...]

Jan Brett’s new Easter book: The Easter Egg

Jan Brett has a beautiful new book out for this year’s Easter. The Easter Egg contains Brett’s signature detailed drawings that show a true understanding of nature. In this story Hoppi is hoping to decorate the winning egg so that he can help Easter Rabbit hide the eggs on Easter morning. It turns out that [...]

Easter Basket Treats

If I were dreaming of a white Easter, this year would be my snow bunny heaven. Somehow, with two feet of crusty snow in the yard, it doesn’t seem like Easter could be this Sunday. It gets better when I walk through the door at Dragonwings. There are spring flowers, egg trees, chicks and bunnies [...]