An Egg is Quiet, by award winning author Dianna Aston, introduces children to the many different varieties of eggs. The ink and watercolor illustrations by Sylvia Long, along with the hand-lettered text teach children facts about how eggs: what they look like, where animals lay their eggs, how their markings help them fit in with their surroundings, about their textures. It also illustrates various stages in the development of chicken, salmon and grasshopper eggs. The last page of the book shows how bird eggs make a noisy transformation into cheeping birds.
This non-fiction book is very eye-pleasing. The hand lettering was unique for this genre and gave it a fiction storybook "feel". While it has too much information for a regular group story time, it could certainly work for a one-on-one story time. Parents of younger children, could omit some of the text and just talk about the pictures. I really liked the two page spread at the end of the book that showed illustrations of birds, butterflies and bugs that hatch from eggs. I would use this book as part of a science unit on biology or birds.
I would recommend it most for children ages PreK-3, but could also be used for older children.
Keywords associated with this book: eggs, birds, nests, fossils, embryology, biology.
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