An egg is quiet

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...

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Main Author: Aston, Dianna Hutts.
Other Authors: Long, Sylvia (Illustrator)
Format: Downloads eBook Books eBook
Language: English
Published: 2013.
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Summary: 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.
Physical Description: 1 online resource
Format: Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 31436 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2567 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB).
Audience: Text Difficulty 3
670
ISBN: 9781452133133
Author Notes: Dianna Aston spends a lot of time in her backyard hoping to find new eggs. She often enlists the help of her husband, children, and their assorted pets. She lives in Texas.Sylvia Long is the illustrator of many best-selling books for children. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with her husband and their dogs.