The Odd Egg

Submitted by Ms. Brenda!
The Odd Egg by Emily Gravett is a fun, interactive book, with delightful illustrations, and witty little snippets of animal dialog. Poor Duck is the only bird who doesn’t have an egg to hatch. All of the other birds have eggs to hatch. But then, all of a sudden, Duck finds an egg of his own! This egg is perfect! It’s huge. It’s huge, and white. It’s huge, white, and covered with green speckles! It’s the most beautiful egg in the whole, wide world! That’s not what the other birds think, though. They laugh at his egg. They tell him that it will never hatch. They are not very nice to poor Duck. Using cleverly cut pages, the hatching of all the eggs unfolds. All but Duck’s egg. Duck waits, and waits, and waits. Then one day, there’s creaking, and there’s cracking, and out pops a… well, you’ll just have to read this book for yourself to find out (but I sure wouldn’t make fun of someone else’s egg if I were you)! See this book listed in our catalog