Category: Children Publisher: PRGott Books
ISBN-10: 057805504X
Type: Fiction
Pages: 38
Copyright: May 2010
ISBN-13: 9780578055046
"The Helium Egg" stimulates the imagination of children and shows the benefits of working together, even though the animals are all very different.
A little black hen finds a soft blue egg, which rapidly expands and starts to float. All the barnyard animals, including ducks, geese, donkeys, sheep, cats, dogs, a horse, and peacocks are need to sit on the egg to weigh it down and keep it inside the barn.
What hatches is a surprise to the animals and the reader.
Excerpt
"Then a sudden breeze started to blow the egg over the pasture fence. Just in time, a retired racehorse ran after it and gently caught it in his teeth. After pulling it back into the barn, he carefully sat on one edge to hold it down."
"The Helium Egg" is a delightfully imaginative book for pre-school and kindergarten-age children. The illustrations are colorful and help explain the story to youngsters. I found it a fun book to read to my grandchildren.
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