The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Henkes, Kevin

Egg

32 pp. | Greenwillow | January, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-240872-3 $17.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-06-240873-0 $18.89

(1) PS Four different pastel-colored eggs occupy their own quadrants of the page. The drama begins when three little chicks hatch, and the fourth egg...waits. What hatches from the fourth egg is not another chick. Will the other three reject the foundling, or embrace it? Henkes taps into the deepest emotions of preschoolers with the simplest of stories and a surfeit of humor.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2017