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How Fletcher Was Hatched!
How Fletcher Was Hatched
Author: Wende and Harry Devlin
Feeling his mistress has rejected him in preference to her newly hatched chicks, the old hound dog decides he must hatch from an egg and learn to say "peep" to regain favor
ISBN: 347146
Publication Date: 1969
Pages: 36
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Publisher: Parents' Magazine Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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hoopridge avatar reviewed How Fletcher Was Hatched! on + 252 more book reviews
I absolutely loved this book when I was little, so much so that one of our dogs was named Fletcher.

Re-reading it as an adult, I found it wordy, with dated illustrations, but the story is still charming. Fletcher feels unloved when his owner likes baby chicks more than him, so he enlists some friends to encase him in an "egg" made of twigs and mud, which he hatches from to impress his owner. The hilarity comes from the village's treatment of the giant egg, which they're convinced it from a new species of bird or maybe even an alien. When Fletcher appears from it, they are justifiably embarrassed by their assumptions.

Better for older readers or parents with patience for longer stories.
reviewed How Fletcher Was Hatched! on + 29 more book reviews
Children's book about feeling displaced then re-united.


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