What's in That Egg?: A Book about Life Cycles Book

Eggs are awesome! But how come some birds’ eggs are HUGE while others’ are tiny? How do chicks come out of them? Imagine if humans were born from eggs! WOW!

Children's Literature

Lively pages abound with sharp color photographs of different types of eggs and the animals that hatched from them and include very brief informational text. Each double-page spread has a different color background, and some of the pages feature simple chalkboard-like drawings, as well. For example, an Emperor Penguin is being pelted with flying asterisk-shaped snowflakes. Two of the illustrations have the potential to be a bit confusing: Fish eggs are shown on the same spread as frog eggs and turtle eggs, with the fish eggs depicted as the largest of all. On another spread, an alligator holds its young between its toothy jaws; readers may wonder if those teeth are about to snap shut. The book concludes with a series of questions framed by egg shapes. For example, "If you had an egg, where would you put it to keep it safe?" or, "If elephants laid eggs, how big would they be?" Although the subtitle states that this is a "Book About Life Cycles," it deals solely with eggs and not with other aspect of life cycles. Better eggs books may already be nesting on your shelves. This is not an essential purchase. Reviewer: Leslie Rounds