Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones (World of Nature Series)
by Ruth Heller
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Eggs Over Easy or Walking on Egg shells (2007-05-30)
Egg lovers, egg heads will especially enjoy this book by Ruth Heller a beautiful story. Oviperous you are, if you slithered or crawled or burst from your shell. Lots of children certainly love the expressions eggs generate. Crack open that shell and enjoy this play on the question, “Which came first the chicken or the egg?” Egg-xactly.
I had the pleasure of meeting Ruth Heller and husband in two completely different times in my life, in a bookstore in Carmel and on another rainy day in a bookstore in Ventura,CA. Both times I had her books, didn’t know she was there, coincidental encounters, so I could and did get autographs. My girls loved her Designs for Coloring: Birds (Designs for Coloring), hint, hint parents. She was so tiny…and obviously a lovely person to get to say to, “I’m a teacher that always wanted to thank you for….”
Right now my first graders are reading about chicks, ducks and other egg tales. So showing the Reading Rainbow that contains this book being featured and read aloud is perfect. Heller’s book is read by Georgia Engles with her interesting lilt it makes the poetic text very nice for them. It’s still a bit hard to read for a few but I do have a set left over from days I taught not from canned scripts but from content connected literature. A few pieces of this text I’ll quote hoping to get the sound which is so gentle and lovely, ” Chickens lay the eggs you buy……Chickens aren’t the only ones. Every bird wild or tame does the same. The ostrich lays the largest egg, the hummingbird the smallest. ..”
As you read her lovely drawings bring you the text illustrated very factually and wonderful rendered. I always see those psychedelic 60 rock posters. I don’t know why, it just happens in my head. I always enjoy teaching with Heller books. You go on to be introduced to reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects…”mermaid’s purses”, seahorses…moon snails, lots of ways to appreciate the egg layers.
If you enjoy video showing the Reading Rainbow: Farm Life with this is a great idea because you’ll go to the farm to see a chick break out of the egg, watch loggerhead turtles be laid and hatched and see some great facts about egg layers. I can’t imagine Ruth Heller’s book out of the context of this tape because it expands the constructs so beautifully.
And if you love this “Animals Born Alive and Well (Picture Books) ” is another great one from the author.Chick chick (2007-02-02)
A great book that talks about other animals that lay eggs other than chickens. I read this book to my preschool children and they loved it very much. The pictures are bright and very colourful. It’s a must buy!Informative book about animal/mammal/insect eggs. (2006-09-29)
I enjoy the realistic non-anthropomorphic pictures Ruth Heller, author/illustrator, placed on each page. They are colorful, accurate and fun to look at. Some pages have just one animal and other pages are filled with lively looking insects and their eggs. I also enjoyed how she showed the size, coloring, shape and form difference between all types of eggs. I learned a lot from this book and think that kids over 3 will enjoy having this read to them. The only downfall I see in this story is that sometimes the words and sentences are in rhyming form and sometimes they aren’t. I would’ve preferred one OR the other, not both. It doesn’t flow as well with the two methods of writ, but other than that it was a good book.Fantastic, from one generation to the next (2006-01-13)
This was my favorite book growing up, because of it’s catchy rhyming story, accompanied by colorful, ecclectic illustrations… and now, it is my sons favorite book - so much so, that I’m now looking into buying Ruth Heller’s other science books. My 4 year old loves them, and the colorful picutres hold my 2 year olds attention (a feat in itself) so well, I’m amazed!
I’m so glad I’ve kept this book around long enough to pass it on to my son, who already has a great understanding of any animal, who is an “Oviparous”I admire this book. (2006-01-05)
I think it’s really great that Ruth Heller introduces a complex subject in a children’s book without talking down to the children. It’s great that she uses “big” words like “oviparous”–kids, after all, can remember lengthy dinosaur names; there’s no reason why they can’t handle other long scientific words.
But I do have slight qualms. For instance, the part about amphibians says that amphibians don’t have claws–what about African clawed frogs?
The illustrations are engaging, and the use of rhyme in prose makes the text flow nicely. The subject is interesting, too. I just wonder a bit about the accuracy of the “facts” presented here.
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