Thanks to a tip from one of our readers I got The Odd Egg as a new book for the upcoming Easter. The book has lovely pastel coloured illustrations on cream paper by Emily Gravett, who also uses the cut-pages technique to give more action to the images.
The story is about a male duck who (obviously) cannot lay an egg and, when all his female bird mates do, he starts looking for his own ovoid bundle and he finds a big green speckled egg which he immediately adopts. All the other birds think the appearance of that big egg is a bit odd and look suspiciously at the duck while he patiently knits a scarf and booties waiting for the egg to hatch. The odd egg is the last one to crack open and everybody is in for a big surprise.
A very fun book, easy for the younger children and with a deeper meaning for the older ones – as I read in a review, it’s a “witty salute to both nature and nurture”! (Available from Amazon UK or US).

-Michela