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The Enormous Egg
The Enormous Egg
Author: Oliver Butterworth
What in the world came out of that enormous egg? It weighs 13,900 pounds! It measures 20 feet and it's not even full grown! — No wonder Nate Twitchell's pet rocks his hometown in New Hampshire and astounds the nation. "That creature is a Federal offense - Un-American," cried Senator Granderson. "It's eating the United States Government out of hou...  more »
ISBN: 402120
Publication Date: 1956
Pages: 188
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Publisher: Scholastic book services
Book Type: Paperback
Large Print: Yes
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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A great children's humor story !! Your kids will love it.
It all started the day Nate Twichell's hen laid this enourmous egg and tried to hatch it!
Nate lives up in Freedom, New Hampshire. It's just a little town with a few houses along one street, and a store and a church. Oh yes, and a school. Not much happens in Freedom. Nate mostly has to look after the chickens, although he does get to fish once in awhile. But everything changed the day the hen laid that enourmous egg. It was so big Nate had to help her turn it every few hours!
Nate worked so hard that it seemed to him he practically hatched the egg himself.The hen and Nate's father and Dr. Zeimer all showed a lot of interest too. Who wouldn't? With such a big egg you couldn't guess whether a whole brood of chicks would hatch out of it or what.
Well, what did? You'd better let Ned himself tell you in "The Enourmous Egg".
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This is a paperback book.
Nate, a 12-year-old boy living in New Hampshire, takes over the care of an enormous egg laid by one of the family's hens, and the last thing he expects to hatch from it is a triceratops! Illustrations.
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This is a paperback book, NOT an audio.
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An entertaining read. Brings back lots of memories of fourth grade.
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This classic like many others written in the 1950's was deaccessioned by a library. Their copy was twenty years old.

The children lived on a farm in NH and did CHORES. Nate's hen laid an ENORMOUSE egg and the hilarity and plot take off. When I read this aloud to MY kids in the 1980's they loved it and it was their first civics lesson. Kids CAN and DO write their representatives and affect policy in Washington! They can donate and solicit funds for projects they care about. And the more unusual or rare something is the more we need to pay attention and try to learn from it. Despite the party line telephone this is a very contemporary book!

The illustrations are as good as Rahl Dahl's.


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