Activities on "The Easter Bunny"

Text: The Easter Bunny
(Ruth Rocha)

Vivinho was a bunny. White, round, fluffy.
Every day Vivinho went to school with his brothers.
I learned to jump, I learned to run...
I learned the best cabbage to eat.

The bunnies were growing,

the time has come to choose a profession.

The Viinho brothers had already decided:
– I'll be an Easter bunny like my father.
– I'll be an Easter bunny, like my grandfather.
– I'll be an Easter bunny like my great-grandfather.
And everyone wanted to be Easter bunnies,

like great-great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather, like all grandparents.
Only Vivinho didn't say anything.

The parents asked, the brothers asked:
– And you Vivinho, and you?
– Well – Vivinho said – I don't know what I want to be.
But I know what I don't want: To be an Easter bunny.

Vivinho's father was startled, his mother was scandalized and fainted:
– OOOOOHHHHH!!!

Vivinho found a lot of friends:
The hummingbird Florindo, Julieta the butterfly, and the bee Melinda.

– Where have you ever seen a rabbit play with a bee?

– Vivinho's brothers said.
Vivinho's parents were annoyed:
– A rabbit has to have a profession.
Where are we going to stop this vagrancy?

– Don't worry – Vivinho said

– I'm learning a great profession.
“Only if he's learning to fly,” Vivinho's parents said.
“Only if he's learning to hum,” Vivinho's brothers teased.

Vivinho smiled and left, jumping, jumping

to meet your friends.
The time has passed. Easter was coming.
Papa and Mama Rabbit went to buy the eggs to distribute.
But the factories had a lot of orders.

They had no more eggs to sell.

Everywhere the answer was the same:
– All sold. We don't have anything else…
The Coelho couple went to everything that was made in the forest.
From Mr. Antão, from Mr. João, from Mr. Simão, from Mr. Veloso, from Mr. Matoso,
Mr. Cardoso, Mr. Tonio, Mr. Petrônio, Mr. Sinfrônio.
But the answer was always the same:
– Everything sold, Mr. Coelho, everything sold...

The two returned home discouraged.
– Oh, come on. This never happened…
– We can't dazzle the children…
– But we've been to all the factories. There's no way, no...

The bunny's brothers were sad:
– Our first distribution… Oh, what a sadness in my heart!…

Vivinho was arriving with Melinda.
– Why don't we make the eggs ourselves?
– It's just that we don't know.

Easter Bunny knows how to distribute eggs. Can't do it!

- Well, I know - said Vivinho - I know.
– Does he know? – said the Father?
“He said he knows,” said the brothers.
“He knows, he knows,” her mother said.
– And how did you learn? – everyone asked.
- With my friends. Didn't I say I was learning a trade?
Because I learned how to remove pollen from flowers with Julieta and Florindo.
And Melinda is the biggest baker in the world. Taught me to make everything sweet…

The Coelho family house became a real factory.
Everyone helped: Papa Rabbit, Mama Rabbit and the bunnies…
and the little friends too: flowering the hummingbird, the butterfly Julieta and the bee Melinda, the world's largest confectioner.
And it was Vivinho who commanded the work.
And when Easter came, everyone was ready.
The egg baskets were ready.

And Vivinho's parents were happy.
The living mother said:
– Now our son has a profession.
And Vivinho's father said:
– Each must follow their vocation…

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