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  Ollie's Easter Eggs

  Olivier Dunrea

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  Ollie's Easter Eggs

  Written and illustrated by

  Olivier Dunrea

  Houghton Mifflin Books for Children

  HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT

  Boston New York 2009

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  Copyright © 2009 by Olivier Dunrea

  All rights reserved. For information about permission to reproduce selections

  from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing

  Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003.

  Houghton Mifflin Books for Children is an imprint of

  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

  www.hmhbooks.com

  The text of this book is set in 24-point Shannon.

  The illustrations are ink and watercolor on paper.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Dunrea, Olivier.

  Ollie's easter eggs / by Olivier Dunrea.

  p. cm.

  Summary: Ollie watches the other goslings dye and hide

  eggs for the Easter hunt, but no one can find the eggs

  when Ollie decides that they are all for him.

  ISBN 0-618-53243-9 (hardcover)

  [1. Geese—Fiction. 2. Easter eggs—Fiction. 3. Easter—Fiction.] I. Title.

  PZ7.D9220p 2006

  [E]—dc22

  2004026552

  Printed in Singapore

  TWP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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  To Anita and Lin—

  who shared many Easter

  egg hunts with me

  This is Gossie and Gertie. They are gathering eggs.

  This is BooBoo and Peedie. They are gathering eggs, too.

  This is Ollie.

  He is hopping.

  Gossie dyes her egg bright red.

  Gertie dyes her egg bright blue.

  BooBoo dyes her egg bright purple.

  Peedie dyes his egg bright yellow.

  Ollie stares at the brightly colored eggs.

  "I want eggs!" he shouts.

  Gossie hides her egg in the green grass.

  "My egg," whispers Ollie. He rolls the red egg out of sight.

  Gertie hides her egg in the yellow straw.

  "My egg," whispers Ollie. He rolls the blue egg out of sight.

  BooBoo hides her egg in the red tulips.

  "My egg," whispers Ollie. He rolls the purple egg out of sight.

  Peedie hides his egg under the green turtle.

  "My egg," whispers Ollie. He rolls the yellow egg out of sight.

  Ollie hides all the eggs under his blanket.

  Gossie and Gertie hunt for the Easter eggs. They look in the tulips.

  They look under the turtle.

  BooBoo and Peedie hunt for the Easter eggs. They look in the grass.

  They look in the straw.

  Gossie and Gertie scoot past Ollie.

  Searching. Hunting.

  BooBoo and Peedie scurry past Ollie.

  Hunting. Searching.

  "Look!" Ollie says. Four small goslings stop and stare. "Easter eggs!" shouts Ollie.

 

 

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