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Nethery, Mary

Mary Veronica's Egg

32 pp. March, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-531-30134-6 $$15.95 | Library ISBN 0-531-33134-2 $$16.99
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Paul Yalowitz. Mary Veronica hopes the egg she found by the pond and is diligently caring for will hatch in time for whatever's inside to win the "Most Unusual" award at the school pet fair. A sweet ending, in which the anticipated platypus or python turns out to be a garden-variety duck that is prizeworthy only in Mary Veronica's eyes, caps this rather nondescript story, illustrated with washed-out colored pencil art.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann

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