With all due respect to the fine contributions from the likes of Crossan and Schweitzer, Katherine Tegen and Sally Anne Lambert’s 2005 work The Story of the Easter Bunny is the definitive account of the Historical Easter Bunny.
Through lively text and lovely pictures, the authors contextuatlize the Easter Bunny in his time, but also show that universal nature of the story. By stripping away all of the unnecessary supernatural elements that are not necessary to explain how a bunny could organize a group of other bunnies into a mighty force that could deliver gifts and treats to a large number of Christian households, Tegen and Lambert present a message that is both difficult to fully grasp and highly challenging.