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Hattie embarks on a journey in search of all the abandoned eggs. She dives to the deepest depths of vast oceans. She soars over gigantic cities and climbs up mountains towering above the clouds. Through gloomy dark caves, deep below the ground, Hattie searches. And she doesn't find just one egg. There are so many abandoned eggs, just waiting for her to find them!
With her newly gathered eggs in tow, Hattie Peck returns home. Sitting on so many eggs at once is quite the task, but Hattie doesn't mind. Days and weeks pass, until one day, finally, there's a Crack! Scratch! Tap! But what will happen when all those eggs hatch together?
Energetic and colorful illustrations fill this story with humor and fun. Kids will take away positive messages about making your dreams come true in unexpected ways. This can also work as an adoption story about unconditional love. With a cute surprise ending, this is sure to make kids laugh and smile.
Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers—picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781634504126
- File size: 5742 KB
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781634504126
- File size: 6719 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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May 1, 2016
PreS-Gr 2-Hattie Peck is a hen who thinks and dreams about eggs-lots of eggs, big and small. Hattie laid an egg of her own only once, and it never hatched, so she now begins a journey to rescue abandoned eggs and hatch every one of them. For days and weeks she searches, across the ocean, through villages and great cities, over mountains, and through caves, fire, wind, rain, and snow, so that each lonely egg may be brought home and hatched. Hattie, with her distinctively painted teal feathers, rides the frothing arc of a wave, rolls eggs down a tiled roof as though playing a delicate game of Plinko, and glides across an endless cityscape in a parachute harness as she doggedly moves a tower of precious eggs homeward in a series of painted vignettes highlighting the enormity of her struggles. Hattie is, at last, a mom. The spread of the hen coop and more than 40 of Hattie's "chicks" sporting hand-knitted outerwear is marked by changes in font and a comic sense of the absurd. VERDICT A sweet tribute to a mother's love, this book is a recommended general purchase for readers in all libraries.-Mary Elam, Learning Media Services, Plano ISD, TX
Copyright 2016 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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February 20, 2017
In 2016’s Hattie Peck, the eponymous hen, unable to lay eggs of her own, “braved the elements rescuing abandoned eggs around the world.” Now Hattie lives happily and chaotically with a diverse brood that includes penguins, turtles, ostriches, owls, flamingoes, and snakes. When the time comes for her young ones to “fly the nest,” she again travels far and wide to deliver her “precious little hatchlings” to various locales, even parachuting into Manhattan. Levey captures Hattie’s devotion to her family with tenderness and humor in a tale touching on themes of adoption, unconditional love, and the sturdy bonds of family. Ages 3–6.
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