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    Guess What Is Growing Inside This Egg
    Guess What Is Growing Inside This Egg
    Guess What Is Growing Inside This Egg
    Audiobook6 minutes

    Guess What Is Growing Inside This Egg

    Written by Mia Posada

    Narrated by Intuitive

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    Crack, crack...animal babies are hatched all over the place. Can you figure out who's who?

    Watercolor and collage illustrations depict close-up scenes of an egg or eggs about to hatch. The text hints at what the eggs contain: "Hidden in a rock cave/ Deep beneath the ocean waves/ Their mother wraps her long arms around/ To keep these eggs safe and sound." The observant young nature lover will find a visual clue of what animal the mother might be. The next spread provides the answer-in this case, it's an octopus. The second spread also provides fascinating facts about the species.

    The book features a number of species ranging from spiders to penguins to octopuses, and the back matter provides more information about the actual size of various eggs and how they develop.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLerner
    Release dateJan 1, 2017
    ISBN9781512447316
    Author

    Mia Posada

    Mia Posada grew up in Minneapolis, then studied art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also studied art in Florence, Italy, and illustration at Academy of Art College in San Francisco, California. Mia has written and illustrated numerous books including: The Long, Long Journey: The Godwit's Amazing Migration, Who Was Here?: Discovering Wild Animal Tracks, and Summer Green to Autumn Gold: Uncovering Leaves' Hidden Colors. She illustrated Plants Can't Sit Still which was named a Kirkus Best Children's Books and won the NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts Award. She lives in Golden Valley, Minnesota with her husband and their three kids.

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    • 4/5
      If you want to have kids interact, I would read this book! It allows kids to guess what type of animal is in the eggs. When the animal in the egg is revealed, there is a short summary about the animal. Great book to use when learning about different kinds of animals.
    • 4/5
      Picture-book naturalist Mia Posada explores the world of animal eggs in this engaging and interactive work for younger children. The book alternates between two-page spreads in which a particular kind of egg is described in rhyming text, with an accompanying question about what's inside, and two-page spreads on which the answer is given, along with more information about the animal in question. Animals profiled include penguins, alligators, ducks, sea turtles, spiders and octopodes. An afterword shows each of the eggs in real size, and provides a progression of a duckling growing inside his egg...Having greatly enjoyed Posada's subsequent Who Was Here?: Discovering Wild Animal Tracks, with its interactive question and answer format, and alternation between simple rhyming descriptions and more detailed informational passages in prose, I was happy to discover that Guess What Is Growing Inside This Egg features the same structure. I think that this works very well, not just in imparting information, but in keeping young readers and listeners involved in the reading process. The accompanying collage style artwork here is likewise engaging, and adds to the reading pleasure. Recommended to young animal lovers and naturalists.
    • 5/5
      Kids will enjoy reading, or hearing, this book. It's about baby animals and the eggs they are hatched from. Students will have fun guessing what animal comes out of each egg, and then when the page is turned, a brief description of the animal is given.
    • 4/5
      This is a charming and informative book for children. Of course, who doesn't like baby animals?! But it is an informative book, and I could see myself reading and showing this book to my former first and second graders. My favorite in this book was the octopus!
    • 3/5
      Summary:This is a story for younger children that explains different animals that hatch from different eggs. My Reaction:This is a very fun book that allows the students to interact by guessing which animal is coming next.Classroom extensions:1. I think this would be a fun way to include science into any Easter theme.2. I think this is a good book to read while hatching your own classroom eggs.
    • 5/5
      This was a wonderful book. I enjoyed the verse clues that invited the reader to guess which animal was inside of the egg. Kindergarten students to 3rd grade students will enjoy trying to solve these "riddles." The interactive aspect of the book was one of its most appealing aspects. The author includes some common information and some interesting obscure facts about the animals, making it a fun read. Children will relate to the baby animals. The illustrations were very appealing. They were cut-out collage with water color accents. Additionally, the author included a section that compared the actual size of the eggs mentioned in the book giving students a great visual for comparison. Finally, she included a two page spread of the inside of a duck egg allowing the viewer to experience the changes that a duck goes through as it matures and prepares to hatch. I would use this in a science lesson on animals.and their habitats.
    • 4/5
      This book takes different types of animals and explains their hatching process and what happens after the babies are born. It is a cute book that little kids and bigger kids will learn from.
    • 4/5
      Posada gives readers a very interesting take on the life cycle book. It starts off with rhyming guessing games for different eggs and animals. At the end there are diagrams of how big the eggs actually are and details about the animals' early life cycles.
    • 4/5
      The book, "Guess What is Growing Inside This Egg" is a very good science information book. The book has different animals that hatch from an egg. This would be a good resource to use in a science lesson on animals that hatch from eggs. Overall I would suggest this book to any teacher to put in their library.