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Eggs

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Every animal "needs to make more of its own kind." When mothers go to the hospital, they come home with a live little bundle of joy, but many creatures, including some mammals lay eggs in order to procreate. Each egg needs to be fertilized with the male sperm. Some are "fertilized inside the female" and then they are laid, while others are fertilized outside her body. Each egg has an environment inside that enables the embryo to develop. Every egg has a yolk and oxygen, but it also needs a proper temperature to grow and mature.

Different types of eggs can feel different. Some are hard, while others are soft. Some "may feel squishy, firm, or hard." Textures, size, forms and colors all vary. This amazing book discusses many different things about eggs you've probably never even heard about. This book discusses how many eggs certain species produce, why some species lay thousands of eggs while others only lay a few, it talks about insects who have "workers and guards" to tend the eggs, egg enemies, where the eggs are laid and/or tended to, how they are protected, nested eggs, how eggs are incubated, how long it takes eggs to hatch and finally what happens once they are out of the egg. Did you know that there were scientists found a turbot that had an amazing "nine million eggs" inside it? There are some amazing facts in this book!

This is an entrancing book! The factual material is very well written and researched and the art work is extremely well done and the combination meshes very well. Toward the end of the book there are seven illustrations of a chick inside an egg. The first three are cutaways so the young reader can look inside the egg. The last four illustrations show the process of the chick pipping the egg and finally emerging from the shell. In the back of the book there is more information about protecting eggs, a glossary, an index and a listing of wildlife organizations, including their web sites. This is an excellent book just waiting for a spot for on your homeschool or classroom shelves!