Egg Tree is s very special book in the Easter Books. Egg Tree is regarded as a classic for the Easter literature. This book, written by illustrious author Katherine Milhous, has been popular among readers for all the years. It was written about half a century ago. This book enlightens young children of all the generations. Apart from being charming, this book is very informative too. It tells about the Easter tree traditions.

This is the story about a young girl Katy. When she was in attic, she accidently discovers old hand-painted Easter eggs, decorated by her Grandmother. Then the story tells how she restores those old Easter eggs.

Once, Katy and her sibling arrive at their Grandmother’s house to celebrate the festival of Easter. Both the children go on an annual Easter egg hunt in their Grandmother’s house on the Easter morning. But after long search, Katy can not find any egg to decorate and she got disheartened. Then she decided to search in the attic above. To her surprise, she found a cache of very attractively hand painted eggs.

She goes to ask her Grandma about those eggs. Her Grandma tells them how to decorate and paint their own eggs and how to hang them on the branches of egg tree to make an egg tree.

This is very special book The Egg Tree earned the author Katherine Milhous the Caldecott Medal. She has made vibrant use of resplendent colors and designs from Pennsylvania Dutch folk art and tradition. Due to popularity of this book The Egg Tree, tradition egg tree rose to popularity in reality also in America . This was a trendsetter story.