Easter is in the air

The sun peeks timidly through the clouds and shines straight into Paul's room. Its rays tickle his nose. "Achooooo!" He has to give a big sneeze. Paul yawns and stretches deeply, then he quickly tumbles out of his bed. It's a beautiful spring morning – and a very special one at that: today is Easter! Paul is already really excited about the Easter egg hunt.

Egg, egg, egg - where are they?

After breakfast his best friend, the cat Kira, comes to visit and then they head straight out into the garden. "I'm so curious where the Easter Bunny has hidden the eggs," Paul says excitedly. "Oh yes, me too," laughs Kira the cat. Together they set off to search. They look behind every bush and every shrub, but nowhere is an Easter egg to be seen. "Strange," Paul murmurs, "the Easter Bunny must have been here and hidden the eggs! We must search again very carefully!" And so the two of them continue to tumble all over the garden. They even look in the bird's nest on the cherry tree and into the deep burrow where the little blue mice live. But not an Easter egg to be found anywhere! "Funny," Paul wonders, "this has never happened before!"

Suddenly Kira the cat pricks up her ears. "Psst, Paul, listen over there…" she whispers. Both are as quiet as mice and listen eagerly. Then Paul hears it too: a soft, deep sobbing. It comes from the very back corner of the garden. Quickly Paul and Kira tumble over there… and who do they see? The Easter Bunny! He sits very sadly beside his empty basket and is blowing his nose hard into his handkerchief. "Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear…" he laments sorrowfully. "Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear… this has never happened to me before!" "Hello, dear Easter Bunny," Paul and Kira greet him, "can we help you somehow?"

The Easter Bunny looks up in surprise! Good heavens, now he's been discovered too! Just what he didn't need! "I have so much work, because this year I have to hide twice as many Easter eggs as last year. So I thought I'd just hop twice as fast. But in doing so I didn't notice that some eggs had tumbled out of the basket. And when I arrived here, it was suddenly empty. Now I can't hide any Easter eggs for you!"

The Easter Bunny blows his nose sadly again and covers his face with his paws. Paul and Kira look at each other and nod. "Dear Easter Bunny," Paul says, "don't be sad. We'll help you find the missing Easter eggs!"

The Easter Bunny can hardly believe his luck and before he knows it, Paul and the cat are off — tumbling and rolling all over Kullerbü. At the windmill Kira discovers an Easter egg, and Paul finds one by the big gate at the end of the street. After a few minutes they have found five more colorful Easter eggs and happily roll back to Paul's house, where the Easter Bunny is still sitting in the garden resting a bit — from all the hopping around and from the fright over the lost eggs.

"Look what we found, dear Easter Bunny," Paul calls from a distance, "seven Easter eggs!" "Oh, luckily you found all the missing eggs. Then Easter is saved!" the Easter Bunny rejoices, grabs his basket and waves goodbye to the two. "Thank you very much! And see you next year!" With that he hops away in a hurry.

Paul and Kira look happily at the colorful Easter eggs shining beautifully in the sun. This Easter egg hunt was especially fun! And they are already looking forward to the Easter celebration next year.