SUBJECTS:
Eggs Juvenile Literature
Counting Juvenile Literature

what hatches from eggs ... nicely done!! ( )

I read Eggs, 1, 2, 3, who will the babies be, in exchange for review from Edelweiss. The book was written by Janet Halfmann and Illustrated by Betsy Thompson. The book was published by Blue Apple books. Key selling points from Edelweiss:

Kids are interested in reading about baby animals
Poetic flow and nature facts.
The book teaches kids how to count
The book is interactive
The art and design work is fabolous
The author has wrote over a dozen nature-themed animal books.

The book was a quick read. I loved the artwork and graphics. The book flowed poetically. The first story is on penguins. The penguin family is waiting for their egg to hatch. The book also teaches counting skills, in addition to guessing skills. For example, the section on platypi, only shows the platypus tail. The kids can guess which animal the tail belongs to. Maybe it's a playpus, maybe it's a beaver. Great read.

This is one of those books that draws big Ooos's and Ahhh's from the young children in my school. Halfmann recites a number alphabet for eggs, with just enough rhyme to charm but not so much that the rhyming becomes annoying. Thompson created fun lift-the-flap pictures to accompany the number alphabet. A delightfully fun interactive book. ( )