Stories That Echo The Story | Green Ember Easter Books
I hear from fans that they love to put the Green Ember books in Easter baskets. While I never intended these to be Easter books, as in “bunny books,” it fits in a different way.
These are Easter books, not because they have rabbits, but because the story is about life breaking through in the face of death. The Green Ember Series is about keeping faith, fighting for hope, and self-sacrificial love.
If you are looking for a meaningful gift to give this Easter, I invite you to add The Green Ember Series.
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We’re giving away two Green Ember: Old Natalia series and two Green Ember: Archer series for a total of 4 winners!
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Book four, Ember’s End, was written during Lent and released on Easter Sunday.
A fitting conclusion for a story that echoes The Story.
For the Mending,
Sam
“Ember’s End: the stunning conclusion to The Green Ember series: Is it an Easter book? Yes, but not because it is about rabbits! Ember’s End is a beautiful conclusion to the saga. Great stories reflect the Greatest Story Ever Told, of our redemption through Christ, and Ember’s End reminds me of the love of our Father, and the hope we have in Jesus’s second coming.”
I love baking with family, and going to our nana’s house for Easter Sunday! So many good memories ♥️I’m 16 and I still love your books so much, and I recommend them to all of my friends!
Spending time with family and time outdoors on a hike!
This year I want to bake hot cross buns for our church’s fellowship dinner on Easter Sunday! My kids loved Green Ember, but I don’t think they’ve read all the books yet. I’m sharing this post with my sister because her eight-year old son also loves Green Ember.
Me and my family celebrate Easter by attending church, normally at midnight, and then we come home and eat special meringue cookies that are hollow inside to represent the empty tomb of Easter Sunday.
I love to go to church for the Good Friday service. I love Green Ember books; they are my absolute favorite book series, next to the Jack Zulu books!
The Green Ember books are great! Beautiful stories!
(mooses with bazookas is also a personal favourite)
Five Stars!
Our family has enjoyed making Resurrection Cookies with our celebration of Easter.
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I finally got the whole Green Ember series for Christmas! Love your books!
I love doing the rocks activity with my family. We pick up rocks to represent our sins and put them in our Easter baskets, then the night before Easter, we cover them with a red cloth to represent Jesus’s blood and then on Easter morning we reveal the baskets full of goodies (Jesus’s gift to us).
We enjoy using Resurrection Eggs!
I love the stirring story of green ember! Easter is an amazing holiday to celebrate the sacrifice of our savior!
We just discovered your books last month and my boys are listening to book four currently. At Easter time we have a tradition of an egg roll, where we roll our eggs at an opponent and if it cracks you’re out. It’s just a silly and fun tradition.
I love making special desserts that emphasize the feasting and spring season, especially as my family usually avoids sugar during lent.
My family’s tradition has been to watch The Passion on Easter Sunday every year for as long as I can remember. Around this time last year we added The Green Ember to our tradition!
I love to read the story of Jesus rising from the dead!
I also love reading the green ember I don’t own any books but my friend who also loves them let me barrow them. I am on book 3!
My church also always has something for the kids to do on Easter Sunday, this year they are having a Easter Choir for the kids to sing for the audlts.
I love to sing/listen to songs about CHRIST’S passion.
Our family loves making a resurrection garden. On Good Friday we fill a pan with dirt, put a rock tomb in it, fill it with wildflowers and set up soldiers. By Saturday, the garden is dead and droopy. On Easter morning, before the kids are awake, we take out the dead flowers, put store-bought flowers into the garden, open the tomb, and take away the soldiers. The garden has resurrected into new life.
For Easter we love to put a new fun piece of clothing in their baskets. This year, we got each of the kiddos a different Green Ember shirt (and ones for Mom and Dad too!) We are so excited for them to hunt for their baskets around the house to find the shirts among their candy and books!
Our children love hunting resurrection eggs! We typically do this during our family worship times in the couple weeks leading up to Easter. Each evening we’ll had 6 of them (we have six kiddos) and they’ll hunt them and then we’ll open them, but we’ll only read the story and talk about one or 2 of them in detail that night, and then do it all over again the next night. In this way, we’ll slowly cycle through all of them over the 2 weeks. Years ago, based on a kit we bought plus other ideas I got from a friend and a little online research, I put together a group of about 24 resurrection eggs. Then there’s resurrection morning, when we hide just the white empty tomb egg and all the kiddos hunt for it! Even our teenagers still love doing this!
Easter baskets and dyeing eggs are fun things to do during the Easter celebrations. Those things should not overshadow the real story and reason for Easter. Going to Church and celebrating Jesus’s resurrection is something we do together every year. We are looking forward to hopefully a sunrise service this year as well.
I enjoy doing an Easter egg scavenger hunt my mom makes!
We make Easter gardens and this year we’re going to make Resurrection rolls!
Our family loves this series! We appreciate the series and the many adventures it has inspired!
Our family enjoys a Ressurection hunt where we read scripture and look for hidden symbols from Holy Week. Nails, cloth, bread and wine, a donkey, olives, a crown of thorns, a rooster, etc.
We also plant a Resurrection garden with grass seeds and decorate with a tomb, rocks and flowers. On Easter morning the stone is rolled away! He is risen!
One thing I like to do is watch the sunrise easter morning.
Marshmallow peeps are also a tradition of ours.
For Easter this year, we are going to try something I saw recently online: on Good Friday, we will walk around outside with baskets, collecting rocks.
Then, talk about how the rocks represent sins and how heavy they are, even if some are really pretty to look at (some sins seem very attractive) and how Jesus died to take away our sins. Then, cover the baskets with a cloth. On Easter morning, they will wake up to a basket full of goodies to represent how the Lord trades our sins for blessing, when we surrender them to Him.
my mom got me the green ember books as a Christmas gift and they are amazing.
We always dyed real eggs together and put them in the basket we hid for the kids to find on Easter morning and also did the Resurrection Eggs after church.
I love going to my great aunt and uncle’s house for Easter dinner! I love your books so much an Im in the process of re-reading them!
Baking cookies
At Easter, I love having a nice big meal with family.
We love going to church as a family and making resurrection rolls at home! Always a hit and helpful illustration for the kiddos and the tasty treat is an added bonus : )
At Easter my family devours packs of Cadbury creme eggs and reads the story of the Resurrection. I love the Green Ember series and their message of hope and redemption!
I love the green ember series. The stories of faith and courage are so inspiring and the jokes are witty and the plot is great.
I love the green ember series. The stories of faith and courage are so inspiring and the jokes are witty and the plot is amazing.
Once one of my friends introduced me to this series I’ve been recommending it to everyone! I’ve only read the main series, but I look forward to reading more from the world of Green Ember! An Easter tradition I love is making (and eating) our peanut butter chocolate buckeyes. I also look forward to our Easter egg scavenger hunt. But I think my favorite thing about Easter is our parish’s early morning mass.
As Angelina and Jessica commented above, we too fill Easter baskets with rocks on Good Friday. The kids write a handful of sins they know they’ve committed on some of their rocks, (pride, disobedience, anger, selfishness, etc.).
On Sunday morning, the rocks are put in a basket that says Jesus and their Easter baskets are filled, with a red cloth covering them.
Since I don’t want them to think that Jesus died so that they can get candy, I try to make sure there is always a book in their basket that is somehow connected to the Gospel, spiritual growth, etc., as well as other items pointing to using God’s gifts for his glory (colored pencils, seeds to grow a plant, etc.)… but of course a little candy too.
I was already planning to put Green Ember Yoto cards in their baskets this year, but the physical books would be awesome too!
We usually decorate our outside Christmas tree by turning it into an Easter tree! Colorful plastic Easter eggs hanging on strings!
I love having a treasure hunt with clues from the Easter story that lead to our baskets!
Easter is such a Holy Day. We love to wear bright colors and spend the day rejoicing!
I always enjoy a good meal with my family (especially potato casserole). I shared this giveaway with my friend, who is also a Green Ember fan!
So we do a special Good Friday plate with chicken nuggets for when Peter denied Christ, pretzels as swords for the soldiers taking Jesus away, olives, salt and vinegar chips, and crackers and peanut butter with crushed pretzels for the crown He was given. It’s one of my kids favorite things as we read the scripture that goes with each item on their plate.
We love to have an Easter Egg hunt and brunch before Resurrection Sunday for the children in our family remembering what Jesus has sacrificed for us.
We go over to my grandparent’s house for dinner. Then my grandpa and dad hide Easter eggs and my siblings and I do an Easter egg hunt. So many fun memories!
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My daughter just loves your books and I am hoping to get my boys started on them as well.
For Resurrection Sunday we have the tradition of feasting, I try to make everyone’s favorite dishes and then we as a family wash each others feet as Jesus did for his disciples. We’ve moved a lot in the last couple years so for the last two years we’ve celebrated with our brothers and sisters in Christ at their homes!! This has been a wonderful tradition we’d like to continue even after we settle down!
We love doing all of the things that we gave up for lent. Such as reading fun books, listening to music, eating treats, etc. We also love using this time to do things as a family outside since the weather is warming up.
We hope there will be new green ember books soon!
I love to attend all of the triduum services as a family. Easter Vigil is such a beautiful celebration to attend! And then we come home and celebrate with something sweet since we have given them up during Lent. We wake up the next morning and make Resurrection Rolls while reading the Scripture to accompany the process. And then we spend time with family. A friend let us borrow The Green Ember series and we love them. Hope to buy our own set eventually. Thank you for writing such wholesome books!
Masterfully crafted and an absolutely adventure to embark on! My family has enjoyed the Green Ember books and it has inspired nightly ‘book club discussions’. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to meet the characters our family has loved!
I paint bunnies. Seriously: Darksword Miniatures makes some of the best rabbits with swords (and bows, and maces, and…) Playing Bunny Kingdom with my kids, the minis looked like melted Easter bunnies, so I ordered some from DM and painted them in honor of Picket and Heather.
I enjoy our Easter basket hunts with my family. And I LOVE going to Church Easter morning, its so joyful!! I think that’s a cool idea to put the Green Ember books in an Easter basket! That would be so fun! Me and my sister love Green Ember! My sister has been recently making up and drawing a lot of the weapons that are not actually shown in the books ( and a few that are), they look really cool! I think the Green Ember is such a cool series, thank you for writing it!
My favorite Easter memory as a child has been revived in our family now– sunrise hike and church service, singing out over the land, “He Lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today!”
We love eating treats that we have avoided all lent! And doing an egg hunt in the morning.
We love celebrating Jesus with scripture readings, thanksgiving and enjoying the company of family. We love the green ember series. Thank you.
We make Resurrection rolls that burst open like an empty tomb! I also love getting Green Ember books in my easter baskets!
My family and I always read the Bible story of the resurrection the night before. I love Easter because we get to celebrate Christ’s resurrection in such a happy way! Also whenever someone asks me for book recommendation the Green Ember series is my first choice. I am pretty sure I have reread all the books a hundred times!
On church, my family goes to church, and we do a choir sing. I just love Easter, and The Green Ember series! Thank you SD!!
I LOVE these books so much! And they certainly aren’t “bunny books” but an echo of the greatest Story ever told, of the ultimate good vs. evil, of the spiritual battle Christians face every day, and of the great sacrifice that Jesus gave for us. Have a blessed Easter, everyone!
“How goes the world?”
“The world goes not well, but the Kingdom comes!”
(excerpt from Kingdom Tales)
We’re IN LOVE with this series! Our whole family LOVES the characters and are so deeply invested in their journeys. My daughter (who loves it the most) and I yell at each other spuratically ….”My place beside you, my blood for yours! Til the green ember rises, or the end of the world!” I recommend them to everyone!
We have been doing a one a day egg hunt with items inside that give children a clue about what bible story we’ll be reading in the bible that day. Similar to a scripture advent calendar at Christmas, it’s a countdown to HIS resurrection! We’ll spend the weeks before Easter learning about Christ’s life, His walk to the cross, and His resurrection.
We like to bake things and hide various candies inside and whoever finds the most in the weeks before Easter gets to choose a special dish for the “Easter feast”
Thank you for the chance to win!
We attend an Easter Vigil the night before, then wake up to an Easter egg hunt (kids) and special coffee (parents.)
My family and I usually go to church for Easter, then spend time with family <3
We enjoy going to the Good Friday service and an grand Easter feast!
Thank you for writing new books that are actually good! It’s so hard to find good books that aren’t 100 years old! (not that I don’t love those, but it’s exciting to be able to pre-order books!)
I’ll end this with a Doug Wilson quote:
“We should strive to have our celebration of Easter far surpass the glory of Christmas.”
Our family makes resurrection rolls every year to remind us of the empty tomb.
Easter is wonderful because it celebrates the most amazing thing ever to happen to mankind! Around Easter time I have always enjoyed Easter Egg Hunts…. when I was little because I took part in them, and now because I enjoy watching the kids take part! Thank you S. D. Smith for truly “making the world a better place”. I absolutely love your books… they are still my favorite books of all time. I also want to thank you for being a strong Christian not afraid to talk about Jesus Christ. God bless you and your family!
We all ways go to are grandmas house to celebrate Easter with her.
We eat dinner and after we do an Easter egg hunt. But we all ways remember what Easter is all about.
Resurrection rolls are a family favorite at our house! We also love dying boiled eggs and then having egg wars on Easter day. Green ember is the best, I love letting people borrow my books so they can read them for themselves.
Everyone in our family gets a new book for Easter! Sometimes it is a Green Ember book
I love this series.
family Easter traditions are also great.
We love to dye Easter eggs and read the story of the resurrection!
Our small group from our church has 5 young families, and the moms always do resurrection rolls with our kids and talk about the meaning of Easter while the dads hide eggs for a group Easter egg hunt afterwards.
We love to talk with our kids about Lent in the weeks preceding Easter, choosing to give up certain things for the period.
For Easter, we have Resurrection eggs that go along with reading the holy week narratives in the Bible, the week before Easter. We end with an easter egg hunt and worship celebration.
Our family enjoys a classic Easter egg hunt each year.
After attending church in the morning, we invite our family over and share a meal even though we all do not believe in Jesus as Lord. We believe that living out our faith is so important to those who do not know Jesus yet.
Amen!
I love being together with the body of Christ and singing songs of celebration that Jesus has triumphed over the grave! Amen.
We love our church service on Easter.
Green ember is our household favorite series. We have the core 4 and gave read through them 5 times now ! We LOVE Helmer the masterchild!
I read the entire Green Ember series with my 6 children and now that they are grown and I am back to teaching again, I am reading The Green Ember with my third graders. We LOVE it!!!
An Easter tradition we have in our family is making hot-cross buns on Good Friday for our Easter celebration. I did it with my own children and now I am doing it with my first grandchild in hopes of more to come! Thank you for the blessing of your books!
I enjoy making a resurrection garden with my daughter. On Easter morning we “roll” the stone away from the tomb to reveal that it is empty!
We love Easter Mass followed by brunch with the extended family!
Happy Easter, Smith family!
On Easter we go to church and then hangout with our church family that afternoon. We usually have a big Easter celebration with family the Saturday before Easter.
Happy Easter, Smith family!
We celebrate Easter by going to church in the morning and hanging out with our church family that afternoon. We also have big Easter feast with family the Saturday before Easter.