The Golden Egg Book (Big Little Golden Book) [Hardcover]

Margaret Wise Brown (Author), Leonard Weisgard (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 2 and up | Series: Big Little Golden Book

Once there was a little bunny. He was all alone. One day he found an egg. He could hear something moving inside the egg. What was it?

So begins the Golden Easter classic about a bunny—and a little duck that is about to hatch!

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Once there was a little bunny. He was all alone. One day he found an egg. He could hear something moving inside the egg. What was it?

So begins the Golden Easter classic about a bunny?and a little duck that is about to hatch!

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 2 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Golden Books; 1 edition (January 13, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 037582717X
• ISBN-13: 978-0375827174
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 0.3 x 10.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #87,558 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #22 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > Animals > Ducks & Other Waterfowl
  • #35 in Books > Children's Books > Animals > Ducks & Other Waterfowl
  • #42 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > Animals > Rabbits > Fiction

More About the Author

Margaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of books and stories during her life, but she is best known for Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny. Even though she died over 45 years ago, her books still sell very well. Margaret loved animals. Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem. She thought this made children think harder when they are reading. She wrote all the time. There are many scraps of paper where she quickly wrote down a story idea or a poem. She said she dreamed stories and then had to write them down in the morning before she forgot them. She tried to write the way children wanted to hear a story, which often isn't the same way an adult would tell a story. She also taught illustrators to draw the way a child saw things. One time she gave two puppies to someone who was going to draw a book with that kind of dog. The illustrator painted many pictures one day and then fell asleep. When he woke up, the papers he painted on were bare. The puppies had licked all the paint off the paper. Margaret died after surgery for a bursting appendix while in France. She had many friends who still miss her. They say she was a creative genius who made a room come to life with her excitement. Margaret saw herself as something else - a writer of songs and nonsense.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still Enchanting after all these years, May 5, 2004

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Cathryn (Maine) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Golden Egg Book (Big Little Golden Book) (Hardcover)

I loved this book as a child, and still find it magical after more decades than I'd like to admit. It's a gentle story about wonder, imagination, surprise, and friendship, and Weisgard's illustrations are enchanting. It just doesn't get much better than this. I'm in the book biz, and in my profession I look at lots and lots of picture books.
"The Golden Egg Book" has a universal appeal that still holds its own after all these years, and will continue to engage children for a long time.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Love this old classic, but not the original illustrations, November 21, 2007

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L. Shrader (Yucca Valley, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Golden Egg Book (Big Little Golden Book) (Hardcover)

I had fond memories of this little book (and one called The Whispering Rabbit), and the images were etched in my mind, so I searched for them to have to read to my little ones. I was thrilled to find both books, and ordered them, only to be disapointed that the illustrations were not the same as I remembered. Upon further research, I found the original on ebay in a book titled The Whispering Rabbit and Other Stories by Margaret Wise Brown, Copyright Weekly Reader Book Club Edition, 1965. The Book includes the 2 aforementioned stories, and The Friendly Book, Scuppers Song, and Rabbit Poem.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A true picturebook classic, July 9, 2004

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Golden Egg Book (Big Little Golden Book) (Hardcover)

Charmingly written by Margaret Wise Brown and superbly illustrated by Leonard Weisgard, The Gold Egg Book is a true picturebook classic telling the story of the rambling imagination of one little bunny as he tries to figure out just what is inside a beautiful blue egg. A whole new generation of children ages 2 to 5 will delight in this lively story as the bunny tries to shake, push, and even jump on the egg in his attempts to break it. But the egg won't hatch until it is ready! The Golden Egg Book will prove to be an enthusiastically popular addition to family, preschool, and community library collections.