Dottie's eieren

by Julie Sykes

Dottie de kip is blij en trots. Voor de eerste keer heeft ze een nest eieren gelegd. Wat zijn ze mooi! Ze vindt dat iedereen ze moet zien. Maar Eend leert net haar kleintjes zwemmen, en Varken is met haar biggetjes aan het slapen. Al die jonkies zijn zo leuk.... Dottie is eigenlijk niet meer zo blij met haar eieren. Maar er wacht haar een grote verrassing.

Genres: Picture Books, Animals, Childrens, Family, Fiction

28 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1997

About the author

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Welcome to my website. Come on in and have a look around. You can find out about my books and also about me.

Name:
Julie Sykes

Birthday:
My birthday month is August

Place of birth:
Kingston upon Thames

Places I’ve lived:
My family moved to Australia just after I was born but returned to England in time for me to start school. I was educated in Surrey and lived there until I got married. I now live in the south of England with my husband and our three children. We used to live on a fish farm, which we shared with 300,000 rainbow trout. We share our current home with a few goldfish and a white wolf cunningly disguised as a dog.

Jobs:
I’ve worked in a kennels, shops, pubs and on a mushroom farm. My first full-time job was as a laboratory technician and after that a teacher. I’m now a full time writer.

First book published:
There were two - This and That and I Don’t Want To Go To Bed!

Favourite Things:
Family, friends, Spring (the season not the bouncy sort although bouncing is good, too), cappuccino, Danish pastries, Cornwall, the sea, books, animals, chocolate.

Worst Things:
Litter, vandals, cleaning the house, having NOTHING to read.

Hobbies:
Reading, walking, cooking, hanging out in cafés.

Reviews

[Zara · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a sweet story about Dora the chicken who is very proud of her eggs. She decides to visit all of her friends to proudly ask if they would like to see them. Dora finds it hurtful when she realises that her friends are more interested in their children and are not her eggs! She then begins to reflect that, although she loves her eggs, 'everyone else's are much nicer'. Dora returns to her nest and perches on the eggs and accidentally cracks one open. She is devastated, not realising that a cute little chick would emerge from the broken shell, which upsets her bringing tears to her eyes. The sorrow turns to abject joy when she sees the chicks which prompted Dora to proudly parades her chicks to the farmyard. She was relieved when the other animals compared the traits of their children to her own. The story finishes with Dora clucking 'My eggs were, nice but my chicks are much, much nicer!'

The story is cross curricular and can be used to create projects and activities associated with a multitude of topics, with science being the predominant one.

Science examples:
* Understanding food chains
* Body parts of the animals could be examined e.g. why do chickens and ducks have feathers and what are they used for
* Probing what other animals come from eggs.

In numeracy:
* Children can count the eggs
* Discuss shapes of the eggs, establishing the difference between oval and round, what other objects are those shapes and can we think of any other shapes.

Design and Technology:
* What can you use eggs to make can be investigated
* Making pictures with feathers and other farmyard materials.

Literacy:

There is a underlying moral to the story, underpinning being grateful for what you have, which is a valuable lesson to be learnt. For literacy the children could write a story about what they are grateful for and why. The animals do not talk like humans, which can be used to help develop their writing skills by thinking of other adjectives to be used.

It is a simple story, with a happy ending, which is brought to life by lovely eye-catching illustrations and would be ideal for 3 - 5yr olds.

[Melanie Moncrief · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dora was sitting on a nest of her very first eggs. She wanted all of her friends to come and admire them. She went to her duck friend Debbie, but she was teaching her babies to swim. She went to Penny the pig, but Penny didn't hear her. She went on to other friends to ask if they wanted to see the eggs and they were all busy. At every stop she became less excited and thought the things the other animals were doing were nicer. She went back to her nest and sat. The eggs cracked and she thought she broke them and started to cry. Soon the nest was full of tiny chicks. Dora was proud of her baby chicks. Dora agreed that her eggs were nice, but the chicks are nicer. This was a good story. It shows kids that just because others may not have time to see what you have created; it doesn't make it less special. I can use this story to talk about how we should be proud of the things we make and create. The book will help explain how we may see things differently. We can compare the animals and what they were doing. We can make charts and graphs about how the animals get around.

[Juf Cindy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Het prentenboek van Julia Sykes, met vrolijke illustraties van Jane Chapman, kan gebruikt worden in de kleuterklas en is leuk om rekenen op een speelse manier te oefenen. In het verhaal legt Dottie haar eieren en probeert ze iedereen op de boerderij te vertellen hoe trots ze is, maar niemand lijkt tijd te hebben om te luisteren… totdat haar kuikentjes uitkomen en zij helemaal in de spotlight staat!

Door de vele dieren en hun kroost ontdekken kleuters op een natuurlijke manier tellen, vergelijken, patronen en eenvoudige rekenvaardigheden, zonder dat het voelt als oefenen. Tegelijkertijd gaat het verhaal over liefde, zorg en trots, waardoor het voorlezen een warme en grappige ervaring wordt die alle kinderen meevoert.

[Ali Book&Seaglasshunter · Rating 3 out of 5]

The pictures in this book are very nice, cheery with bright colors. A hen is excited to show off her first clutch of eggs. But each mother that she meets has more exciting babies and is busy taking care of them. Dora becomes a bit sad but soon she discovers that there’s something new within her nest.

[Janet · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dora, the chick, visit all the farm animals and sees their babies and thinks perhaps her eggs are not so good after all, that is until they hatch. Jane Chapman is the illustrator of Karma Wilson’s bear titles which I adore. This is one of Chapman’s earlier titles.

[Mehsi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Een schattig prentenboek over ouderschap en houden van je kinderen waarin we veel dieren tegenkomen en hun kroost, maar ik vond het wel magisch dat een rondje om de boerderij genoeg was om vers gelegde eieren uit te laten komen. Dat had ik iets beter willen zien.

[Marilyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Great illustrations!

[Terresa Wellborn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Suitable for early elementary, K-2. May need to shorten as some pages have a lot of text.
Themes: eggs, chickens, farms

[Tara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Story 3.5
Illustrations 4

[Y.Poston]

cute exploration of chicks hatching

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very simple story but charming plot.

[KaitandMaddie · Rating 3 out of 5]

But mom, aren’t the eggs getting cold?

Yeah, you are correct kid.

[Kelly Chester · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a super cute book

[Abbey · Rating 3 out of 5]

*3.5

[Kathryn Joyce · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dora thinks her eggs are boring until they hatch. Teaches students to be happy for what they have. Also shows that you always want what you don't have. I would use this as a community builder. This could also be used to have students' write about what they wish they had, yet are grateful for what's already theirs.

[Christine Grant · Rating 4 out of 5]

Preschool Story Time. Baby Animals.

Dora is excited about her eggs and wants to show them to her friends. Everyone is too busy with their new babies leaving Dora feeling sad and a little jealous that their babies are more exciting and special than her boring eggs. When she returns to her nest she is in for a surprise. A quiet a book that preschoolers find engaging.

Chicken Storytime 2021

[Ashley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oliver loves any and every book with animals. He's 20 months old now and animals are defintely his top interest. So we enjoy seeing all the animals, making the animal noises and are working on the names of baby animals.

[Shala Howell · Rating 3 out of 5]

sweet story

[Cws]

JEAR2-Syk

[Katy Brandes · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a sweet enough little book, but my son has never really been interested in it. Don't know why...

[McKenzie · Rating 2 out of 5]

A cute read aloud. It starts off kind of plain and silly, but it has a really sweet ending.

[Kayla Whitlock · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this aloud to my husband. He was too busy comparing the pictures to the text.

[Rozemarijn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like the Dutch name of her more: Dottie.

[Natalie Martinez · Rating 4 out of 5]

cloqueo - clucked
orgullosa - proud (fem)
dirigio - ran
praders- prairie
estanque - pond
chapoteaban -splashed
retozar - romp
monton- pile
paja - straw
salpicaban- slapshed

[Little Champs]

2135

[Lindsay · Rating 5 out of 5]

farm animals, new beginnings, spring, farm animal puppets

[Little Miss and the Legomeister · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a simple story, but the text and illustrations were cute.