An Egg Is Quiet
Ratings3
Average rating4.3
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Ratings3
Average rating4.3
Award-winning artist Sylvia Long has teamed with up-and-coming author Dianna Aston to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to eggs. From tiny hummingbird eggs to giant ostrich eggs, oval ladybug eggs to tubular dogfish eggs, gooey frog eggs to fossilized dinosaur eggs, it magnificently captures the incredible variety of eggs and celebrates their beauty and wonder. The evocative text is sure to inspire lively questions and observations. Yet while poetic in voice and elegant in design, the book introduces children to more than 60 types of eggs and an interesting array of egg facts. Even the endpapers brim with information. A tender and fascinating guide that is equally at home being read to a child on a parent's lap as in a classroom reading circle. Plus, this is the fixed format version, which looks almost identical to the print edition.
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I had high hopes from the cover of this book, but the result was not as good as I thought. The font of the text is very stylistic but hard to read. The text is either very advanced “Some sharks begin life in a leathery egg case with tendrils”, either very simple “An egg is quiet. Then, suddenly... an egg is noisy!”. Sometimes, the text is written inside of an illustrated book, at an odd angle, which is not comfortable to read. My favorite part is the extremely beautiful illustrations. But even there, I found some odd mistakes. I have intrigued by the Field Cricket illustrated egg, which looks like a tiny banana, but when I looked online, I realized that it looks more like a long whittish yellowish piece of rice. What an inaccurate illustration! In the end, I am so so about this book. 2,5 rounded up at 3 stars.
