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Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, January 2009
Hardcover, 32 pages
ISBN-10: 1416968725
ISBN-13: 9781416968726
Grades: P - 3
Awards and Nominations
- Bank Street Best Books of the Year
- California Young Reader Medal Nominee
- Capitol Choices List (DC)
- CBC Children's Choice Book Award Finalist
- CCBC Choices (Cooperative Children's Book Council)
- IRA/CBC Children's Choices
- Mockingbird Reading Program (Abilene ISD, TX) Outstanding Titles
- New York Times Best Illustrated Books
- Virginia Readers’ Choice Award Master List
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Description
Each of the birds has an egg...except for Duck. So when Duck finds a beautiful egg of his own he's delighted -- even though the other birds make fun of it. But everyone's in for a BIG surprise when his egg finally hatches!
The witty text and playful illustrations appear on cleverly designed cut pages that allow the visual jokes to unfold.
The Scotsman, April 3, 2009
...the pictures the bright yellow Bird stands out as the story's hero. Another odd couple appears in Emily Gravett's The Odd Egg (Macmillan, £10.99), although we don't discover that until the end of the book. With her usual attention to ...
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