Bunster, An Easter Story by Christine Hwang Panzer | Giveaway (1 Winner) ~ Review | #Children’s #BoardBook #Friendship
A book blog tour from iRead Book Tours.
Thank you to the author, publisher, & Lauren at iRead for providing me with the information for this tour. 
Book Details
Bunster, an Easter Story by Christine Hwang Panzer
Published by Mascot Kids on 04/05/2022
Genres: Animals, Children's Picture Book, Fiction, Friendship
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 16
Join Bunster as he finds friends in unlikely places as a celebration of Easter!
Source: iRead Book Tours, Received from the author or publisher for review.
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Purchase Links for Bunster
Blackwell’s TheBookDepository Walmart
Mascot Books
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My thoughts on Bunster
Christine Hwang Panzer’s children’s board book, Bunster, An Easter Story is beautifully illustrated. The delicate watercolor drawings are divine with exceptional detail.
I found the story more about friendship than Easter, so the book works well any time of year and for folks that do not celebrate this holiday.
If I read the book to my grandchildren as a series of vignettes, instead of as a continuous tale, it made a little more sense. Otherwise, it feels a bit disjointed to me. The main concept of friendship carries throughout the book, which does give it continuity. While the cursive print makes for a beautiful page, books targeted to toddlers should be in a simple print font so children can practice letter and word skills. Perhaps this is not an issue for you or the babes you might be gifting the book to, so please check it out yourself.
This board book makes a great gift for a newborn as it’s sturdy enough to handle baby book abuse and an adult or older child will be reading it.
I think rating a book like this is quite difficult as everyone is looking for something different in a book for this age group. Other than the points mentioned above, Bunster is a beautiful, giftable book. You can see my Rating Reasoning at the bottom of this post.
I received a copy of the book for the tour. This review is my honest, unbiased opinion.
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About Christine Hwang Panzer
Christine Hwang Panzer is an artist that dabbles in storytelling and enjoys working in different mediums including marker, ink, watercolors and colored pencil. She enjoys drawing fantasy creatures, anthropomorphic animals, and kids.
She lives with her husband, Ian and sweet black kitty, Kida in the Bay Area, California and likes to take walks, go out driving, and play video games and board games with her friends.
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A Note from the Author
Hi everyone!
My name is Christine.
All good book lovers probably have a library of their own. So how many bookshelves are in our house?
Asking that question is kind of dangerous for us, because my husband and I live in a 972 square foot two-bedroom condo, and we can only fit our Ikea bookshelves in the living room. We have three —
two of which hold prized board games. The other six by six black Kalex holds our books. We also have a white cabinet by the Kalex (also from Ikea), that holds Ian’s love for the RPG genre of gaming. I do not think we can possibly fit any more bookshelves in our tiny place.
We don’t know how we’re going to fit those bookshelves in a future new bigger place and not have it feel super full or slightly cluttered as it does now.
On our giant square shelf, I divided our books into Ian’s on the very left half and mine on the very right half with the two middle sections being a blend of the books we share in common and have introduced to each other and both read while we knew each other. It is fitting since our wedding portrait sits above our shelf on the wall and the Mr. and Mrs. signs from our wedding sit above our designated sections (with the fox couple sculpture I made for our wedding cake in the middle)
My section is mainly filled with kickstarted webcomics and art books as well as some choice young adult and adult fantasy series. His is the same, just different books. I tend towards the artsier and more eye-pleasing webcomics, whereas my husband loves the more cerebral stuff.
Thanks a billion to Gina for reviewing my book and allowing me to write a blog post here!
Take care, everyone!
Christine
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Purchase Bunster online from a local book store.
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Easy Amazon Links
Bunster: An Easter StoryShop on Amazon
Hardcover
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Giveaway!
Enter to win a signed copy of BUNSTER: AN EASTER STORY (one winner/USA only) (ends April 22)
BUNSTER: AN EASTER STORY Book Tour Giveaway
Please visit more stops on the tour for extra chances to win!
Full Tour Schedule:
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April 6 – Triquetra Reviews – book spotlight/author interview/giveaway
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April 6 – Chit Chat with Charity – book review/author interview/giveaway
April 7 – Older & Smarter? – book review/guest post/giveaway
April 7 – Gina Rae Mitchell – book review/guest post/giveaway
April 7 – She Just Loves Books – book review/giveaway
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April 11 – Locks, Hooks and Books – book review/giveaway
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April 12 – Reading is My Passion – book review
April 12 – Book Vue – book spotlight
April 13 – Pause for Tales – book review/giveaway
April 13 – The Phantom Paragrapher – book review/giveaway
April 14 – I’m Into Books – book review/giveaway
April 14 – Lamon Reviews – book review/author interview/giveaway
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April 15 – Sefina Hawke’s Books – book spotlight
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April 15 – Faith And Books – book review/giveaway
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Rating Reasoning:
Starting point is 5
-1 for font
-1 for fluidity
+ .5 for beauty and durability
Final score 3.5
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Some very good points Gina. It does look like a sweet book based on the cover.