I just want to make an egg I am proud of.' Hoppi's artistic endeavors are sidetracked when he encounters a robin's egg in need of some warmth and decides to put first things first, and manages to impress the boss bunny anyway. Page after page, we find bunnies in creative throes via panoramic chocolate eggs, painted eggs, Ukranian eggs, marbleized eggs, straw eggs, golden eggs, beaded eggs.how can Hoppi hope to compete? Finally, he decides, 'I guess I don't have to win.

4 Linear Feet (manuscript) 1.THE EASTER EGG by Jan Brett (Putnam,2010) The great egg decorating contest is on, and all the bunnies are trying to 'bring it!' so they can win the honor of helping the Easter Rabbit deliver the eggs.

Biographical Source: Something About the Author, vol. Lorna Balian has received awards for her work including the University of Wisconsin's Little Archer Awards and the Colorado Children's Book Award. Lorna Balian's six children occasionally served as her models and she has worked in a variety of media, including pen and ink, pencil, and watercolor wash. Critics have praised her works for their 'entertaining illustrations' and 'imaginative settings.' Lorna Balian's books have a 'droll sense of humor' and her plots reflect a 'childlike imagination.' Lorna Balian's sense of humor also 'shines through in imaginative tales based on everyday events' as in The Sweet Touch (1976), the story of a wish and an inexperienced genie that results in too many sweets. In 1964, she illustrated an adaptation of John Godfrey Saxe's poem An Elephant, and in 1965 wrote and illustrated Humbug Witch, a humorous story about a little 'witch.' Over the next few decades, she published many books, including others with a holiday theme such as Humbug Rabbit (1974), an Easter story, and A Sweetheart for Valentine (1979). She studied at the Layton School of Art from 1948-1949 and later worked as an artist at the American Lace Company in Milwaukee and as a freelance artist. Lorna Balian, nee Kohl, was born Decemin Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Humbug Rabbit by Lorna Balian