I was at Mount Daniel, an elementary school in Falls Church recently when I ran across a book fair, whereby an impressive array of books were displayed in the school library. Kids got to select whatever titles they wanted and place them on "wish lists." It seemed a great way to get kids to read.

Being that it's just before Easter, I looked for books about the season, the most important Christian holiday of the year. Mind you, I saw something called "Passover Around the World" and "Sammy Spider's First Passover" plus "The Story of Karate: From Buddhism to Bruce Lee" and "Tenzin's Deer," a book sympathetic to Tibetan Buddhism. I saw a book about a Chinese immigrant girl who got her green card and another book that I would definitely categorize as pro-Palestinian.

Soooo, where were books about the E-day? Well, there was "Spot's First Easter" and "The Night Before Easter" and "The Bunny Who Found Easter" and "Silly Tilly, the Easter Bunny." But the New Testament, last I checked, did not mention any Easter bunnies amidst its accounts of Jesus' death and resurrection.

I asked a volunteer about this curious omission and she grimaced and said such political correctness is pretty typical in public schools. I did not know. When I asked who the supplier was, she referred me to Bookworm Plantation, which I googled, coming up with this site.

I was not able to check with this Manassas, Va., group to get a comment from them but what a shame Easter is so politically correct. The Easter bunny didn't die for anybody's sins. Maybe some childrens' book publishers need to get on that.

— Julia Duin, assistant national editor/religion, The Washington Times