Daisy and the Egg

by Jane Simmons

Book Overview

Daisy's Auntie Buttercup is sitting on four eggs: three of her own and one for Mamma Duck. Daisy is so excited-soon she will have a little brother or sister. But hatching an egg isn't always that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316797472
• ISBN13: 9780316797474
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Length: 31 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.7" x 9.7"
• Age Range: 3 to 6 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 1

Customer Reviews

One of my daugher's continuing favorites

This is a beautiful book, fun to read, and my daughter enjoys it immensely. She even "reads" along, reciting all the parts she remembers, and looks so proud of Daisy when she sits on the egg. At three, my daughter is doing as many things as she can her "very own self" and I think she identifies with Daisy wanting to do something on her own. This book is definitely worth having in your kids' library.

My kids loved it!

This book not only has beautiful illustrations, but also has an engaging story that young children will sit quietly to hear. As a preschool teacher I have watched my 3-5 year olds ask me to read it again and again. The message of perserverance is a good one and that's what the children seem to focus on when they hear it. "Daisy did it!". I can't wait to read the first book about Daisy. I plan on purchasing this book to add to my personal library for when I have children of my own.

It's about Ducks

The illustrations of this book are beautiful--they make me want to cup Daisy and her cousins (and little Pip) in my palm--and the story is lovely. Despite one reader's feeling that there's no message (or an inappropriate message), I think children have the right to literature that's more than didactic, that represents dramatic or emotional or natural situations for their amusement or wonderment or pondering. And ducks sit on eggs for other ducks. And sometimes, eggs don't hatch. True to character, though, Daisy is curious, determined, and sweet--this is why she sits so diligently on the egg and is able, through her own determination, to win over her doubting Mama. By the last page, when Daisy and Mama and Pip watch the sun rise on his "hatching day," I had a tear in my eye, and my nine-month-old was still interested in the bright and duck-filled pictures.