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PreS-K This is the story of a drake who is feeling left out. "All the birds had laid an egg. All except for Duck." When he finds a huge, green-spotted egg, he loves it right away. Sitting high atop itso high that he barely fits into the picturehe is subjected to the taunts of the egg layers: "Not pretty." "It'll never hatch!" "Ha ha!" Gravett uses narrow pages that gradually increase in size to reveal all of the other eggs hatching, from the smallest chick to the t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

This delicious revenge fantasy begins with a case of egg envy. "All the birds had laid an egg. All except for Duck." Gravett accentuates the divide between the haves and the have-not in her first double-page spread by showing the robin, parrot, hen, flamingo, and owl grouped into a cozy maternal pile with their eggs, while Duck stands alone, an empty, eggless...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

A robin, parrot, hen, flamingo, and owl are grouped cozily with their eggs. One by one they hatch (on a sequence of ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More