Egg Is an Egg - Hardcover

Weiss, Nicki

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399221824 ISBN 13: 9780399221828

Publisher: Putnam Juvenile, 1990

Synopsis

A poetic explanation of how everything changes--eggs to chicks, branches to sticks, green to white, and day to night

About this title

From School Library Journal:

A gentle and comforting story about a small boy and his mother as they discuss the changes in the simple things around them. An egg becomes a chick; a seed becomes a flower; day becomes night. But the important thing--the love they share--never changes. A wonderful progression is maintained throughout in text, page colors, and illustrations. As she did so successfully in Where Does the Brown Bear Go? (Greenwillow, 1989), Weiss employs a two-sentence refrain to reinforce the theme. Repetition of the soft green, yellow, and pink pages provides visual continuity as do the illustrations--a small element from one picture carries over to the next one. Although the large print and overall concept widens this book's use to a slightly older audience than Where Does the Brown Bear Go? , both books share a similar feeling. Children will identify with the spare, childlike colored - pencil illustrations and will find warmth and reassurance in the familiar objects, the repetitive phrases, and the love between mother and child. --Jane Marino, White Plains Public Library, NY
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0399221824
• ISBN 13: 9780399221828
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32