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Reviews: (by author)Aston, Dianna. An Egg Is Quiet. Illus. Sylvia Long. San Francisco : ChronicleBooks, 2006. ISBN 0-8118-4428-5. $16.95.What a beautiful book! From the dust jacket art and design to the endpapers of speckled aqua to the first big pages featuring paintings of a wealth of kinds of eggs, this book is a visual and literary delight. Aston's exposition encourages the readers' curiosity. Long's watercolors are exquisite rendering of animals and ecologies and the eye-popping varieties of embryos in protective shells. Aston organizes her presentation by stating an unusual fact, e.g. "An egg is artistic," then through the eggs from salmon roe to Scarlet Tanager to Grosbeak and Tern, Long paints those shells, each one like a conscious work of art. One of the benefits of a book like this is it reminds adults how full of wonder the world is. Kids don't need reminding. A. Allison, June 2006 |
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