Eagle Book Club

The Talking Eggs was written by Robert D San Souci, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney and is a Caldecott Honor book and a Coretta Scott King Award Honor book. I enjoyed this book. Who doesn't like reading a story about the person who has a good soul but gets mistreated getting the happy ending while seeing the greedy mean people who get what they deserve? The illustrations in the book were plentiful and blended quite well in telling the story. The story is about a mother who is mean, lazy, and hateful, and her two daughters who are opposites. Her daughter Rose is just like her mother and is her mother's favorite while her sister Blanche is kind but get mistreated by both of them. Blanche stumbles across a kind old witch-woman who rewards her good behavior with wealth and fine things. Of course, the Mom and Rose plot and try to acquire the same things from the witch-woman and get their just desserts. Young readers would do well to learn these life lessons in that good behavior is awarded by good things and vice versa. It's an entertaining story that will keep a young reader's interest while getting the moral of the story across. It's lessons like this that I try to incorporate into the classroom in order to instill some of these life's lessons along with the academics.

Jerry Pinkney has also illustrated the following books:
The Song of the Trees
The Tales of Uncle Remus
Back Home
John Henry
Sam and the Tigers
The Little Match Girl
The Nightingale
Little Red Hen
The Old African