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| An Egg Is Quiet | 
| Author: Dianna Hutts Aston
Creator: Sylvia Long
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book
List Price: $16.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 40144
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 36
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 11 x 9.1 x 0.3
ISBN: 0811844285
Dewey Decimal Number: 591.468
EAN: 9780811844284
ASIN: 0811844285
Publication Date: March 2, 2006
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Product Description
Award-winning artist Sylvia Long has teamed with up-and-coming author Dianna Aston to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to eggs. From tiny hummingbird eggs to giant ostrich eggs, oval ladybug eggs to tubular dogfish eggs, gooey frog eggs to fossilized dinosaur eggs, it magnificently captures the incredible variety of eggs and celebrates their beauty and wonder. The evocative text is sure to inspire lively questions and observations. Yet while poetic in voice and elegant in design, the book introduces children to more than 60 types of eggs and an interesting array of egg facts. Even the endpapers brim with information. A tender and fascinating guide that is equally at home being read to a child on a parent's lap as in a classroom reading circle.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
Diana and Sylvia's most amazing adventure with eggs August 27, 2008
14 out of 23 found this review helpful
One of the great joys of being a children's librarian is discovering an amazing and astonishing book like "An Egg Is Quiet" by writer Dianna Aston and illustrator Sylvia Lang. From an egg's first appearance to its triumphant grand opening, an egg lives a very quiet existence (thus the book title).
The end pages (found on the back of the covers and facing page) first demonstrate to the reader, not only the amazing beauty of one egg, just one egg, but also the devotion to duty of the illustrator for showing us this beauty.
The next two pages display the amazing variety of egg patterns, from the cylindrical shape ending in tendrils on both ends of the Dogfish`s egg to the simple elegance of the Emperor Penguin's egg.
Inside the actual informational pages, the reader learns that:
An egg is quiet
An egg is colorful (these two pages get a Wow!)
An egg is shapely
An egg is clever
An egg is artistic
An egg is textured
Next we learn through a lovely comparison chart the growth patterns of a chicken, a fish, and an insect. My favorite concept of the book comes last. In the beginning are the eggs and their patterns. Now we are shown the birds (and a few insects, fish, amphibians) that come from those eggs. Frankly, to use the vernacular, I was blown away!!!
As a librarian on the lookout for creative informational books, I was thrilled to find this book and add it our collection. However, I want to be clear: There is no story here, other than the story of life, but that story is inspiring and awesome. In fact, another concept on display is the Creator's fecund imagination and creativity.
I would like to recommend this book for every home library , but only if someone sits down with the child to explain things. For school libraries "An Egg Is Quiet" is a must-have! Diana and Sylvia will take you on a most amazing adventure with eggs!
Wonderful Book August 26, 2008
This is one of the most beautifully written and illustrated books I have had the pleasure to own. As a teacher, it is a book I will treasure forever.
An Egg is Quiet March 21, 2008
Beautiful Book! My 4 year old daughter loves it since she saw it on "Between the Lions." Very educational and the illustrations are beautiful. I'd recommend it highly.
Exquisite, accurate, addictive, perfect March 9, 2008
I purchased this book for my son and was amazed at the accuracy of the illustrations! It's gorgeous to look at, it has a wonderful story and it can be used as a reference book because the illustrator took the time to look up each aspect of the eggs! It's wonderful!! The story is great and I can't say enough about this book! If your child doesn't have this or any of this author's books in their budding library, I highly recommend it!
Beautiful book January 30, 2008
This book is a gem, the information it gives is wonderful, interesting to children, and most of all the illustrations are outstanding. Every page is truly a work of art.
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