Peep and Egg: I'm Not Hatching
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Joyce Wan's bright and bold illustrations will have young chickies giggling at Laura Gehl's reassuring tale that takes the not out of I'm not.
Egg is not hatching.
No way. No how.
It is too scary out there.
Peep wants Egg to hatch so they can do fun things together, like watch the sunrise, splash in puddles, and play hide-and-seek.
But Egg is not cracking...
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A chick named Peep can't wait for her sibling to hatch, but Egg has plenty of reasons to stay in his shell. Peep tries to tempt Egg with visions of everything they'll do together, but splashing in puddles is "too wet," and playing hide and seek with the pigs and sheep is "too loud." Peep tries to stay upbeat, but when she puts her wings on her hips and scowls, readers will know that she isn't going to beg forever. "Okay, I guess you're not ready.... See ya later," Peep tells Egg, who promptly realizes he had better hatch after all. Gehl's (Hare and Tortoise Race Across Israel) just-enough text delivers a spot-on channeling of a coaxing parent and oppositional child, while Wan (The Whale in My Swimming Pool) blends expressive emoji-like characters (even unhatched, Egg has a vividly cranky personality) with ingeniously geometric settings. A scene in which Peep and Egg imagine watching a sunrise together is a marvelous array of shapes and lines. Ages 2 6.
