Whose Egg Is That? [Board book]

A nonfiction guessing game that explores the connections between an animal, its eggs, and its habitat. Now as a board book!

Babies and toddlers will have fun making page-turn predictions, and grown-ups will appreciate learning such eggcellent facts.

Written by a mammalogist at the Smithsonian, this clever page-turner pairs five eggs with information about the animals' survival mechanisms, asking kids to guess which animal laid which egg.

Featured animals in Whose Egg Is That? include:

• Emperor penguin
• Sea turtle
• Ostrich
• Robin
• Dinosaur

Little learners will love this nonfiction guessing game book about animals, their eggs, and their habitats with perfect page-turn reveals!This board book adaptation follows the same format as the original, though slightly shorter in length. Readers are introduced to an egg with one defining characteristic pointed out, such as color, size, texture, or location, and asked the title question. Along with the egg are hints, such as a single ostrich feather, or a sandy beach with a tiny piece of ocean in the corner. The answer is revealed with the turn of the page, and the main characteristic is explained. A robin’s egg is bright blue because the color protects it from strong sunlight. An ostrich egg is the largest egg and can weigh more than three pounds. The realistic gouache illustrations depict the eggs in their natural habitat along with their parents in full detail. Readers might see a colony of emperor penguins with dads protecting their eggs from the snow and ice, or a small dinosaur hatching from a clutch of eggs in a prehistoric setting. Most eggs come from birds, but there are a few reptiles too, like the dinosaur and the loggerhead sea turtle, though the board book doesn’lã