Overview

Now in available as an eggcellent board book! Duck is delighted to find an egg of his own to look after: it's the most beautiful egg in the whole world! But all the other birds think it's a very odd egg indeed - and everyone's in for a BIG surprise when it finally hatches. With split pages that allow the visual jokes to unfold, this is another witty and lively book from an award-winning creator.

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9780230750487

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Another triumph for Gravett * Sunday Times * A charming tale * Observer * On no account cheat with this book! The surprise ending will delight again and again. * Guardian * Egg stories do not come much better than Emily Gravett's The Odd Egg . . . exquisitely expressive. * The Times * If you're only going to buy one book for your two-year-old, make sure it is Emily Gravett's The Odd Egg. * Daily Telegraph *

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Emily Gravett is a graduate of Brighton University and the winner of the 2004 Macmillan Prize for Illustration. A former traveller, Emily has now settled in Brighton with her partner and their young daughter. Her first picture book, the inimitable Wolves was published by Macmillan in 2005 to great acclaim, winning the Kate Greenaway Medal and the Nestle Children's Book Prize Bronze Award. Emily has since written and illustrated four further picture books, Orange Pear Apple Bear, (shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal), Meerkat Mail, Monkey and Me and Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears.

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