The Odd Egg - Emily Gravett

My two children love this book, it may be short and sweet, with barely a story line, but it never fails to amuse them both. The version we have is a small board book, about A5 in size, in landscape design. The Odd Egg The Odd Egg, written and illustrated by Emily Gravett, is the short tale of a group of birds who all have an egg, all expect for duck. But he finds himself an egg, an unusually large egg. One by one all the eggs hatch to produce baby versions of each of the birds; as you would expect. Duck’s is the last to hatch and seems to take forever...the other birds think the egg is odd and ... more

After a recent trip to the library, my son picked up this delightful book, mainly because he liked the front cover….he chooses books the same way I do! The book I will now review is - “The odd egg by Emily Gravett”. The story is set around a flock of all different birds, nearly all have them have managed to lay an egg….that is except for poor duck, who is understandably distraught until she finds an egg! And the egg(in her humble opinion!) is the most beautiful (if not competently huge) egg in the world. The only thing was the fact that all the other birds thought it was hideous! Then one bye ... more