Customer Reviews

Bently & Egg

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This children's book is exquisitely told and drawn. My almost-six year old daughter and almost-four year old son also love it. Every time I read it, I wonder why they don't make children's movies like this book. I would so much rather take my children to see this book in film version than to another Disney film. This is the kind of story children and parents can get lost in together. And I can't say enough about the illustrations--I laugh every time I see Bentley smiling down at the screaming lady from atop her easter bonnet! I give this book my highest recommendation.

the book is very well illustrated. it tells a lovely tale of the right to make mistakes, and the way to mend them - all in good humor and fine understanding of a child's worry confronting mistakes! loved it! got it!

My children and I consider this book a "holiday classic" for Easter reading. Really just a wonderful book for kids ages 4 +. Lovely story, well told with great intelligence and humor just like so many other William Joyce books. The painted illustrations are also classics. My kids love the funny voices we've made up for all the characters. This is a real gem, and the perfect gift from grandparents or aunts and uncles who don't want to arrive bearing candy on Easter.

Great story that my 3 year-old loves. It's a bit long, but she sits through the whole thing. I think as she gets older, she will come to appreciate the underlying lessons of loyalty and friendship.

This is currently the favorite book of my almost three-year-old. It's a sweet story, and we've really enjoyed the language, too. Bently has such a delightful way of speaking, and I have found my daughter saying, "It's pandemonium!" We love it.

Bently and Egg by William Joyce is a good book. I like this book because of its adventure and how people can talk to animals. The setting to the animals looks like a jungle but to people it's just a garden. The book is about a duck that lays an egg and asks a frog named Bently to watch it while she is gone, but the egg gets stolen by a boy who thinks it is an Easter egg. Now Bently must go on an adventure to find it. The resolution is that Bently gets the egg back. When he gets home the egg hatches into a duckling. The duckling is named Ben after Bently. I would recommend this book. I would recommend it because it is a very good children's book and I think they would like it. It is a good children's book because animals can talk and a frog can go on an adventure using a toy boat to get across a pool and he can use a parachute to get down to the garden. That could make kids use their imagination. It is a good book for 1st and 2nd grade because it is too hard for kindergarten or younger and it is too is easy for 3rd grade and above.

I agree with the reader from Virginia--reading this I pictured it as a movie. Totally delightful and imaginative.

I am a big fan of William Joyce's work. He has such a wonderful style and tells such great, imaginative stories. This early work from him isn't one of my favorites though. It's a cute story, but the illustrations, the true stars of his books, are a bit different than what he normally does. The illustrations are too light or something. Still the character desings are cute and it's well worth the price of purchase but it's just not as satisfying as his other works.