The Horn Book Guide

EASY READERS

Daniel, Claire

The Chick That Wouldn't Hatch

20 pp. | Harcourt/Green Light | August, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-15-202337-2 $$10.95 | Paper ISBN 0-15-202269-4 $$3.95

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Lisa Campbell Ernst. A pink hen chases an errant, non-hatching egg as it rolls through the farmyard, adding other animals to the chase as they go. Though there's no good reason provided for the egg's elusiveness, energetic, cartoony illustrations and repetitious elements ("Pig couldn't catch it, so he ran too. The egg kept going") will attract early readers.

Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam