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Egg or Eyeball?: Chick and Brain


Series
Chick and Brain

written and illustrated by
Cece Bell

Edition
Hardcover edition
Publisher
Candlewick
Imprint
Candlewick
ISBN
9781536204391
POTENTIALLY SENSITIVE AREAS
None
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QTY
Out of stock

JLG Category

Easy Reading

Brain is not so smart; he thinks an egg is an eyeball. Chick, and then a variety of other animals, tell him no, it's an egg. Some animals want to eat the egg; other animals want to eat some of the other animals. Then a monster-y guy comes along and wants to eat all the other animals. But it turns out it IS his eyeball. When he can see again, he doesn't want to eat anybody.

Full-color illustrations.

POTENTIALLY SENSITIVE AREAS
None

Details

Format

Print

Page Count

70

Dewey

E

AR

1.5: points 0.5

Lexile

GN200L

Genre

Fiction

Scholastic Reading Counts

0

JLG Release

Jun 2020

Book Genres

Easy Reader

Topics

Chicks. Dogs. Eggs. Eyeballs. Animals. Humorous stories.

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Praise & Reviews

Starred or favorable reviews have been received from these periodicals:

School Library Journal

School Library Journal

A bird named Chick; a goofy, underwear-clad human named Brain; and their friend Spot the dog return for another surreal graphic novel, a follow-up to last year’s Smell My Foot. When Brain finds a white oval, he’s convinced it’s an eyeball, but an exasperated Chick tells him it’s an egg—“I know because I was an egg. I am a baby chicken. And I came out of a lady chicken.” Spot concurs with Chick and demands to eat the egg. The humor revolves around comical misunderstandings, Brain’s intelligence (or lack thereof), Chick’s insistence on good manners, and the ridiculous debate that becomes more and more absurd. Bell’s colorful cartoons are equally hilarious; they get bigger and bolder as the action becomes increasingly frenzied. The story is divided into four chapters, with one to four panels per page. For early readers (and grownups who read to them) who love funny tales; fans of the earlier installment will especially get a kick out of this one.

School Library Journal

K-Gr 2-A bird named Chick, a goofy, underwear-clad human named Brain, and their friend Spot the dog return for another surreal graphic novel, a follow-up to last year's Smell My Foot. When Brain finds a white oval, he's convinced it's an eyeball, but an exasperated Chick tells him it's an egg-"I know because I was an egg. I am a baby chicken. And I came out of a lady chicken." Spot concurs with Chick and demands to eat the egg. The humor revolves around comical misunderstandings, Brain's intelligence (or lack thereof), Chick's insistence on good manners, and the ridiculous debate that becomes more and more absurd. Bell's colorful cartoons are equally hilarious; they get bigger and bolder as the action becomes increasingly frenzied. The story is divided into four chapters, with one to four panels per page. VERDICT For early readers (and grownups who read to them) who love funny tales; fans of the earlier installment will especially get a kick out of this one.-Andrea Lipinski, New York Public Library

Praise & Reviews

School Library Journal

A bird named Chick; a goofy, underwear-clad human named Brain; and their friend Spot the dog return for another surreal graphic novel, a follow-up to last year’s Smell My Foot. When Brain finds a white oval, he’s convinced it’s an eyeball, but an exasperated Chick tells him it’s an egg—“I know because I was an egg. I am a baby chicken. And I came out of a lady chicken.” Spot concurs with Chick and demands to eat the egg. The humor revolves around comical misunderstandings, Brain’s intelligence (or lack thereof), Chick’s insistence on good manners, and the ridiculous debate that becomes more and more absurd. Bell’s colorful cartoons are equally hilarious; they get bigger and bolder as the action becomes increasingly frenzied. The story is divided into four chapters, with one to four panels per page. For early readers (and grownups who read to them) who love funny tales; fans of the earlier installment will especially get a kick out of this one.

School Library Journal

K-Gr 2-A bird named Chick, a goofy, underwear-clad human named Brain, and their friend Spot the dog return for another surreal graphic novel, a follow-up to last year's Smell My Foot. When Brain finds a white oval, he's convinced it's an eyeball, but an exasperated Chick tells him it's an egg-"I know because I was an egg. I am a baby chicken. And I came out of a lady chicken." Spot concurs with Chick and demands to eat the egg. The humor revolves around comical misunderstandings, Brain's intelligence (or lack thereof), Chick's insistence on good manners, and the ridiculous debate that becomes more and more absurd. Bell's colorful cartoons are equally hilarious; they get bigger and bolder as the action becomes increasingly frenzied. The story is divided into four chapters, with one to four panels per page. VERDICT For early readers (and grownups who read to them) who love funny tales; fans of the earlier installment will especially get a kick out of this one.-Andrea Lipinski, New York Public Library

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