At age 4, Suzie Que had already decided that Easter was one of her favorite holidays and she had been looking forward to this day for a long time.

There were so many things that Cutie liked about Easter … Coloring eggs, getting a special Easter Basket filled with goodies, putting on new clothes for church … and of course hunting for the Easter Eggs was the best! 

Cutie wanted to share her favorite time with her friends, Monique and Josh. They all were to meet at the neighborhood park in Waycross, Georgia to begin the Easter Egg Hunt.

When Cutie arrived, she saw her friends, Monique and Josh, and ran to greet them. They had empty Easter baskets with colorful ribbons tied on the handles. They needed these baskets to gather their Easter eggs.

Cutie really wanted to win the Grand Prize for finding the most Easter eggs. The prize was a giant, stuffed Easter Bunny. It was complete with top hat, vest and bow tie. That bunny was bigger than Cutie!

Finally the big moment arrived! The official rang the bell and the hunt began! Cutie and her friends, Monique and Josh, started hunting for the many brightly colored eggs. They found them under trees, in bushes and behind rocks.

All of a sudden, Cutie felt something crack under her shoe. She had stepped on what she thought was one of the hidden Easter eggs. Cutie and her friends, Monique and Josh, standing nearby, noticed a wonderful smell in the air.

Just at that moment, Cutie felt very peculiar.

She looked around and saw what looked like a painted wall in front of her. It turned out to be a giant Easter egg!!!

Behind her were her friends, Monique and Josh. They were her size, but everything else had grown immensely!

Cutie and her friends could not believe what was happening. They decided that the egg that Cutie had stepped on must have been magical. That egg produced a smell that made them shrink down to only one inch tall.

At first it was kind of fun being so small. They started thinking about in all the neat places they could hide … in someone’s pocket, behind rocks, inside a rabbit’s den, in someone’s shoe, or even inside an Easter basket.

“Look out!” Cutie yelled. Another child, who was hunting for eggs, almost stepped on her friends. “Wow, that was close … maybe this isn’t so neat after all,” Cutie said.

“We have got to figure out how to get back to our real size! One of her friends exclaimed.

Without warning, Cutie and her friends were startled by a giant rabbit! Cutie picked up a twig and shook it at the rabbit. “Please don’t  hurt me,” the rabbit pleaded.

Cutie and her friends became frightened. “A talking rabbit!” they exclaimed in unison.

“Maybe he can help us!” Cutie shouted.

They explained to the rabbit what had happened to them and that all they wanted was to become normal size again.

“My name is Whiskers,” the rabbit said. “I can help you. Hop on my back and I will take you to a magic marshmallow bunny. Eat it and you will grow,” the rabbit told Cutie and her friends.

They climbed up onto the rabbit’s back and the rabbit hopped away carefully so he wouldn’t knock them off.

They reached the huge, marshmallow bunny. Cutie thought it was bigger than the giant, stuffed Easter bunny that she wanted to win.

Cutie and her friends grabbed a handful of the huge, yellow bunny. Cutie tried it first. “Yum, yum, this is great!” she told her friends, Monique and Josh. So they ate and ate until it was all gone.

Unfortunately, they must have eaten too much, since they started to feel bad. Uncle Bill always told Cutie not to overdo. “We probably should not have eaten the whole thing!” she moaned.

Suddenly, Cutie realized that she was standing over her friends, Monique and Josh. She had grown back to her normal size!

Immediately after, her friends were standing next to her, the same size as before. “What an un’Bunny’lievable adventure,” Cutie said, making her friends laugh.

They looked down at the ground to tell Whiskers the rabbit how grateful they were, but he was nowhere in sight.

By now, the Easter egg hunt was over and everyone had gone home. Anyway, this was much more exciting than hunting for Easter eggs, and Cutie and her friends couldn’t wait to tell their story.

Would anyone believe such a wild tale? Maybe they should just keep it to themselves as their special secret? Cutie and her friends, Monique and Josh, agreed that keeping it a secret would be the best.

Suddenly, Cutie heard Uncle Bill calling to her from the other room. “You’d better hurry and get up or you’re going to be late for the Big Easter Egg Hunt. You know how much fun you always have!”

Cutie woke up thinking about the giant, stuffed Easter bunny that she wanted to win.

She was very happy it had all been a dream!!

THE END