Egg Drop

by Mini Grey

Overview

Now for something completely different from Mini Grey!

A mother hen tells her chicks about the egg that wanted to fly. “The egg was young. It didn’t know much. We tried to tell it, but of course it didn’t listen.” The egg loves looking up at the birds (yes, it has eyes). It climbs 303 steps (yes, it has legs) to the top of a very tall tower—and jumps. It feels an enormous egg rush. “Whee!” it cries. “I am flying!” But it is not flying, it is falling. Hold your tears, dear reader—there is a sunny ending for this modern-day Humpty Dumpty. Impossible to categorize, Egg Drop is Mini Grey at her zaniest.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780375985492
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	06/27/2012
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
Lexile:	AD540L (what's this?)
File size:	8 MB
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Mini Grey is the brilliant young author-artist of Traction Man Is Here!, which won the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award; its sequel, Traction Man Meets TurboDog, which was the recipient of many starred reviews; and The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon, a Kate Greenaway Medal winner.

Editorial Reviews

"The Egg was young. / It didn't listen. / If only it had waited." This modern-day version of Humpty Dumpty (wall, fall, irreparable damage), first published in England in 2002, may prove as controversial as the comparatively benign Arlene Sardine (1998), by Chris Raschka, whose fishy heroine dies mid-book. Here, an egg wants desperately to fly and just can't wait for all that pecking-out-of-the-shell-and-flapping-its-wings business. Despite many warnings (and being ignorant of Bernoulli's principle, illustrated within), it climbs to the top of a 583-step tower and jumps. Gravity ensues. When the broken shell can't be repaired with tomato soup, Band-Aids or nails, the egg-now curiously intact and smiling like the Mona Lisa-is plated sunny-side up with bacon for an unseen diner's breakfast. Some children will laugh, two or three will never eat an egg again and, as usual, none will pay any attention when told "Wait until you're older." Grey's appealing, comical artwork-with soft watercolors, toasty warm palette and refreshingly varied perspectives-employs bits of graph paper, photographs and other textures to wonderful, shattering effect. (Picture book. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews

Starred Review, The Bulletin of the Center of Children's Books, September 2009:
"Kids in general will roar with laughter at this expectation-busting tale."

From the Publisher