The Egg

As a teacher, The Egg is a wordless story making it an opportunity to build on a reader's contextual skills and prediction and conferencing abilities. This lends itself to describing, inventing, and creating as each page is turned. For the youngest reader, the story tells itself in expressive faces that convey emotion without a single line of text. The story pushes the outside edge of believability, but in a way that is charming rather than outlandish. Young children will be delighted by what hatches out of this egg!

Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this digital ARC in return for a fair and honest review.

The Egg is a wordless story about a crane and a child. They become an unusual, and beautiful family.

As an educator, this book would be great for helping students develop inference and prediction skills. The beautiful illustrations lend themselves to students using describing skills. The wordless story will help students improve their narrative skills by putting the story into their own words.

Thank you to OwlKids and NetGalley for the ARC of this book to review.

The Egg was a beautiful wordless picture book about loving, caring families that don't always look exactly the same. Families come in all shapes and sizes. There are so many opportunities for learning and activities.

The first thing that you (or a child) will notice is that this book contains not a single word of text.  The pictures tell the story and convey both what is happening and the emotions of the characters.


This is a tale about becoming a family and how a family may not always look as we expect.  The crane is caring for an egg; the bird is upset when the egg falls out of the nest...a spoiler (the egg survives).  Enjoy the surprise of seeing whohatches and the relationship that ensues.


I like that this book has no text.  Because of this a child and adult can tell the story and talk about it.


Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this title in exchange for an honest review.

Love the illustrations in this wordless picture book. I'm a sucker for found family and representation of all the diverse family units out there. Being wordless, this book leaves a lot of room for kids to tell the story and for it to become a conversation.

This was a great story about love, loss, and finding your family again - even if it's not your own. I really enjoyed the illustrations and they were bright and colorful.