Puddles and Arthur are very special friends. But in the week before Easter, Arthur goes missing.

Worried and sad, each day, Puddles searches forArthur. She has something important to tell him

but he is nowhere to be seen.On Sunday, as everyone enjoys the

Easter celebrations, Puddles has her own reason to celebrate…

Also availableIn the Puddles big book series: Fabulous soft toys of:

A Wet and Windy Harvest for Puddles Freddie the vicarPuddles Lends a Paw Puddles the catPuddles and the Christmas Play Arthur the catA Wedding Day Wish for Puddles 4 Kittens set

For a complete catalogue of all Books@Press products please visit

www.booksatpress.co.ukIllustrations by

Louise GwillymGill Vaisey9 780955888632

ISBN 978-0-9558886-3-2

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For Biscuit ~ my inspirationGill

For DanielLouise

Happy memories of our special black cats:Ebony, Guinevere, Truffle and Midnight

Gill

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ISBN: 978-0-9558886-3-2

Text © Gill Vaisey 2010Illustrations © Louise Gwillym 2010

First published in the UK 2010

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with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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Acknowledgements:Many thanks are extended to the following for their valuable comments and support:The Revd Alex Pye, Martin Holmes, Jane Hopkins and the children at Apple Tree Day Nursery.

About the Illustrator:Louise Gwillym is a Nursery Nurse who has beenworking within the school environment for fourteenyears. Through working with primary age children,Louise has developed her individual style of artwhich captures the interest and imagination ofchildren of all ages, and in particular those inthe early years phase of education.

Teacher Consultant:The advice and expertise ofMelissa Griffiths has beeninvaluable in producing this bookand accompanying resources.Melissa has many years’experience as an RE Co-ordinatorand has worked with early yearspupils for nine years.

About the Author:Gill Vaisey is a Religious Education Consultant specialisingin the primary and early years phases of education.After studying for her B.Ed. Hons. degree, with ReligiousStudies as her specialist subject, she taught primary agepupils before taking up a post as an Advisory Teacher forReligious Education in Gwent. Gill has been a successfulfreelance consultant since 1996 and has developed apassion for early years education through her mostrecent work with this age group.

Puddles and the Happy Easter Day, is thefifth in a series of big books which introducevery young children to aspects ofthe Christian faith. They aredesigned to capture the interestand imagination of children throughthe adventures of Puddles – a verymischievous cat.

Look out for other titles to follow more adventures ofPuddles, accompanied by the Reverend Freddie Fisher.

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Puddles loved the springtime. Flowers blossomed in the sunshine.

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Newborn lambs frolicked in the fields.

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The Reverend Freddie Fisher also loved thespringtime. Next week was Easter; the mostimportant Christian festival in the year.

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Puddles joined the children at the SundaySchool. She was just in time to hearMiss Lewis reading from the Bible.

Puddles listened carefully with the children.Miss Lewis turned the page…

Jesus grew up to be a veryspecial teacher who helpedpeople know more about God.Sometimes he told stories withspecial messages and he also

helped lots of people who weresick. He had many friends whobelieved he was God’s son.

But other people didn’t like whatJesus was saying and doing.They became angry with Jesusand planned to kill him. Then,

one Friday, Jesus was killed.

It was a very sad day.

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But three days later, on thefollowing Sunday, an amazingthing happened. Some of Jesus’friends said they saw him again!“He is alive!” they said. “How

could this happen?!”

It was the strangest thing theyhad ever known. They couldhardly believe their eyes!

It was a very happy day for

those who loved Jesus.

Miss Lewis closed the Bible. The childrenthought carefully about the story. Theythought about sad times and how sad thepeople were when Jesus had died. Thenthey thought about happy times andremembered how happy and amazed thepeople were that Jesus was alive again.

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When Sunday School was over, Puddleswandered outside. She thought aboutArthur. She was happy that he was hervery special friend. She had somethingimportant to tell him. But Arthur was notin the churchyard where he usually was...

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Puddles ran down to the village pond.She saw the swans with their cygnets.

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She heard the birds with theirchicks. The rabbits hoppedabout with their babies.

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Puddles and Arthur are very special friends. But in the week before Easter, Arthur goes missing.

Worried and sad, each day, Puddles searches forArthur. She has something important to tell him

but he is nowhere to be seen.On Sunday, as everyone enjoys the

Easter celebrations, Puddles has her own reason to celebrate…

Also availableIn the Puddles big book series: Fabulous soft toys of:

A Wet and Windy Harvest for Puddles Freddie the vicarPuddles Lends a Paw Puddles the catPuddles and the Christmas Play Arthur the catA Wedding Day Wish for Puddles 4 Kittens set

For a complete catalogue of all Books@Press products please visit

www.booksatpress.co.ukIllustrations by

Louise GwillymGill Vaisey9 780955888632

ISBN 978-0-9558886-3-2

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