BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) - ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Lena would really like to see a baby chick at the farm. But when mother tells her it takes 21 days for an egg to hatch, Lena is determined to watch the chickens until that happens. Eventually one of the hens lays an egg, but when she walks away from it, Lena carefully takes it inside to hatch it herself. When her parents explain it's not a good idea, her brother helps her build an incubator.
Although presented as a story, this is very much a non-fiction with great information about waiting for a chick to hatch. There are no weird or disturbing pictures of the chick developing. There is a marvelous illustration showing how an egg is laid (grew up on a farm and never saw this perspective, ever) and the hatching picture, engineered so the child turns the page to reveal the chick is clever. I did wonder why they went through all of the trouble of incubating one egg when there was a setting hen in the yard. This would make a great introduction to a class about to incubate eggs of their own.
Lisa Librarian
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