The Egg

by Gallimard Jeunesse, Pascale de Bourgoing, René Mettler (Illustrator)

Follows a hen's egg from the moment it is laid to the time the chick hatches out and introduces various egg-laying animals, such as birds, snails, and snakes.

Genres: Animals, Science, Birds, Nonfiction, Picture Books, Childrens

17 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Gallimard Jeunesse is a French publisher of children's books. It is a subsidiary of Éditions Gallimard. It is the publisher of the French versions of Harry Potter. It was founded in 1972.

Reviews

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this series. Some of them are very hard to find and command a high price. The pictures are clear and bright and the "clear pages" add interest. They are European based, so some of the species pictures are not native but the information is sound. Recommended, if you can find them!

Q2021 book.

[Shelbi · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is great! It is an attention seeker, it has great pictures that will really draw the students in!

[Cws]

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[Cheryl · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a really cool book to teach my son how an egg is formed inside the hen & how the chick forms inside the egg. He really enjoyed it!

[Tabitha · Rating 5 out of 5]

toatsmugoats great book of the year

[Zamri Misman · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Maria]

The Egg goes through the life of an egg. It starts out in a hen and then the hen then has to sit on the eggs until they hatch. When they hatch, little chicks come out and they can walk and eat within a few hours. There are so many other farmyard fowl that lay eggs too. These animals consist of ducks, guinea hens, pigeons, turkeys and several more. The ostrich's egg is the biggest of them all! There are many other animals that lay eggs as well.

I did like this book but I got a little bored because it was a lot of facts. It was an engaging book but it might have been more interesting if there was more of a story line.

I would use this in an animal unit but I would never just read this to my students for fun.