Eggs - Hardcover

Singer, Marilyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823417271 ISBN 13: 9780823417278

Publisher: Holiday House, 2008

Synopsis

Just in time for Easter and springtime, here is a gorgeously illustrated picture book filled with fascinating facts about eggs.

Many creatures, including amphibians, reptiles, insects, birds, and even some mammals, lay eggs. Eggs come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and textures, from jelly-covered bullfrog eggs that float to stringy octopus eggs that hang beneath sea ledges. Animals protect their eggs in special ways too. Seahorse eggs are carried in the father's pouch, while Asian cave swiftlet eggs stay safe in a nest made of spit. As different as they are from one another, all eggs contain a special world, a place where a developing embryo can breathe, grow, and be nourished. Extraordinary facts abound in this intriguingly written and intricately illustrated picture book about the varied appearances, development processes, environments, and survival challenges of eggs.

About this title

About the Author:

Marilyn Singer is the author of over 80 books for children. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. For more information, please visit: www.marilynsinger.net

Emma Stevenson is a graduate of University College Falmouth in Cornwall, England. Her debut illustrations for Eggs, by Marilyn Singer, were called "striking and nicely detailed" by Booklist. The Horn Book wrote, "Stevenson's beautiful field guide-like illustrations capture every nuance and detail." Emma Stevenson lives in Birmingham, England, but enjoys painting pictures of familiar as well as exotic habitats.

From Booklist:

This handsome book introduces eggs: their functions; their wide variety of sizes, shapes, textures, and colors; and how they protect young animals growing inside them. Smoothly written, the text creates an even, almost conversational flow from page to page, leading seamlessly from one topic to the next. British illustrator Stevenson contributes large and small gouache paintings in a precise yet fluid style that suits the subject well. Though it’s difficult to get a good idea of size in pictures of animals and eggs isolated against white backgrounds, the illustrations are often striking and nicely detailed. Appended pages carry a note on environmental concerns, a glossary, a brief note on sources, a bibliography, and a list of organizations working to protect wildlife. Slightly older children seeking more information than can be found in the equally lovely picture book An Egg Is Quiet (2006) will find this a logical next step. Grades 1-4. --Carolyn Phelan

About this edition

• Publisher: Holiday House
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0823417271
• ISBN 13: 9780823417278
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Stevenson Emma