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An Egg Is Quiet

Dianna Hutts Aston author Sylvia Long illustrator

Format:Board book

Publisher:Chronicle Books

Published:26th May '06

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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.

  • Winner of Flicker Tale Children's Book Award (Early Grades Nonfiction) 2007
  • Winner of Cybils (Nonfiction Picture Book) 2006
  • Commended for Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens (Up to Seven) 2007
  • Commended for Texas 2x2 Reading List 2007
  • Short-listed for North Carolina Children's Book Award (Picture Book) 2009

ISBN: 9780811844284

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

36 pages