Meet Steve, a rather—hot—cross bunny and his more positive pal, Nugget, a cute chick. Steve has failed to make any chocolate eggs for the Easter egg hunt. What is he going to do? Egged on by Nugget he decides to make an egg his own way. Not only is Steve’s attempt egg-normous but it hatches a… dragon! Chaos and drama unfold as the baby dragon rampages though town, gobbling up Easter eggs as it goes with unegg-spected results!  Fun, rhyming text makes this is a wonderful Easter story with a twist , packed with laughter and super silly escapades. Who needs cute bunnies when you have hot-cross Steve and a dragon baby who poops chocolate... but can they save Easter? K-Gr 2—On the Isle of the Great Easter Bunny lives a small, very cross rabbit named Steve. He is not "egg-cited" about Easter, because he has been unsuccessful in growing any chocolate Easter eggs all year. "'It's hop-less!' Steve grumbled, his heart felt so squeezy. 'This chocolate egg growing is meant to be easy.'" With encouragement from a chicken named Nugget, Steve continues trying and grows an enormous egg that hatches a dragon. Steve and Nugget follow the hungry dragon into the Real World, where it eats all the chocolate eggs, potentially ruining Easter for all the children. When they catch up with the dragon, who they discover is friendly, the creature poops out enough chocolate eggs to restore Easter. Steve ends up winning his coveted Golden Egg Cup, and all's well that ends happily in this rhyming tale. Cheerful spring colors illustrate this romp; but though the rhyme reads well enough, the scatological humor may ruin chocolate eggs for readers of all ages. VERDICT Not a necessary purchase for libraries.—Maria B. Salvadore “This picture book is a riot […with] egg-cellent themes of ‘doing the right thing’ and friendship.”― BookTrust Carys Bexington was born and raised near the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, UK, and spent her childhood climbing every single tree in the fields around her family’s farm house, filling jotter after jotter with illustrated stories of her adventures. Her drawing skills have not improved, however, she hopes that her rhyming tales capture the love she has for a good old fashioned quest, and her soft spot for characters who don’t necessarily always make the best choices. Her debut picture book is ‘The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland’, Macmillan Children’s Books. Mark Chambers is an author and illustrator of children’s picture books and young fiction. He studied Illustration at University and since graduating has been represented by the London and New York Illustration agency, Bright Group International. In 2017 Mark was shortlisted for the AOI World Illustration Awards and in 2013, The Roald Dahl Funny Prize. In the same year he went on to win the Sheffield Children’s Picture Book Award and was also highly commended in the young fiction category. Some of Marks’ clients include Hodder Children’s, Bloomsbury, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, Amazon, and Marks & Spencer. Mark lives and works in France with his wife and their very bouncy hound.