An Egg Is Quiet
Synopsis: The illustrations win this book. Detailed and life-size, the pictures of hundreds of eggs pair with the simple text for a fun, educational experience.
Citation: Ashton, Dianna. An Egg is Quiet. (2006). Illus. by Sylvia Long. San Francisco: Chronicle.
My thoughts: This book is so much fun. I love sitting with small ones and pouring over the illustrations and reading the facts with each. You can truly use this book with all ages to learn about how nifty eggs are.
Library usage: Could be used for an Easter program or anything on eggs. Might pair well with Sarah Weeks' Two Eggs, Please or Green Eggs and Ham.
Review:
Worthy successor to Ruth Heller's Chickens Aren't The Only Ones (1981), this engrossing album pairs images of dozens of precisely detailed eggs and their diverse wild parents to basic facts presented in neatly hand-lettered lines. Nearly all depicted actual size (and those that aren't, are consistently so labeled), Long's eggs look real enough to pick up, whether placed in natural settings or suspended on white pages. All, whether from birds, insects, reptiles, fish or amphibians, are not only identified, but Aston adds both topical phrases--"Eggs come in different sizes"--to each spread and, usually, memorably presented additional facts: "An ostrich egg can weigh as much as 8 pounds. It's so big and so round, it takes two hands to hold one egg." A delight for budding naturalists of all stripes, flecks, dots and textures. (Picture book/nonfiction. 6-9)
"Aston, Dianna: An Egg Is Quiet." Kirkus Reviews 15 Mar. 2006: 286. Literature Resource Center. Web.
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