Helen Plum Library

"Lisa Steele, founder of the popular blog Fresh Eggs Daily, shares the delightful and delicious recipes she uses each day to take advantage of the bounty provided by the feathered friends on her Maine farm"-- Think you know all there is about eggs and how to cook and bake with them? Think again! Steele shows you just how easy and delicious it can be to make eggs a staple of every meal. She starts with helping you shop for eggs at the store, reinforces...

The egg is a paradox--both alive and not alive--and a symbol as old as culture itself. In this wide-ranging and delightful journey through its natural and cultural history, Lizzie Stark explores the egg's deep meanings, innumerable uses, and metabolic importance through a dozen dazzling specimens. From Mali to Finland, mythologies around the globe have invested the egg with powers of regeneration and fecundity, often ascribing the origin of the world...

Eggs come in many different shapes and sizes, but the most important question to young, curious minds is what will hatch? Science for the very young is done best through joyous learning; education will certainly hatch from these pages

Hoppi the bunny wants to win the egg-decorating contest so the Easter Bunny will choose him to help distribute Easter eggs, but instead, while everyone else is working on their decorations, he finds himself guarding an egg that has fallen from a robin's nest

"All of the chickens in the farmyard lay eggs regularly-- all except for P. Zonka, that is. She's too busy looking at the colors of the world around her. The other chickens think P. Zonka's just lazy...until she lays the most beautiful egg they've ever seen"--

"When spring arrives, it's time to visit the farm to pick out some eggs, perfect for decorating. Bring your eggs home, taking care not to crack them, and find a pot big enough to fit them all. While the eggs are cooling and drying, get ready for some dyeing! Then on Easter morning, fling open your door and search for eggs of a different kind, filled with foil-wrapped chocolate, spinning tops, and jelly beans. And those perfect eggs you dyed the day...

"Since the beginning of time the egg has been an object of fascination to humankind. It has been worshiped in religion and mythology as the source of all life around the world."

"Eggs are a delicious, nutritious, and versatile! Introduce young readers to the chickens and their farmers, learn to cook a simple egg and toast dish, then make plant pots from the shells"--

"A fun story with maps and mazes shows children where their food comes from"--