Argus
From the author of the best-selling Library Lion comes a funny, heartfelt new picture book about embracing the unusual, green scales and all.Sally’s class is doing a science project, and Mrs. Henshaw is handing out eggs for hatching. "Mine looks different," says Sally. When Sally’s egg cracks,...
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From the author of the best-selling Library Lion comes a funny, heartfelt new picture book about embracing the unusual, green scales and all.Sally’s class is doing a science project, and Mrs. Henshaw is handing out eggs for hatching. "Mine looks different," says Sally. When Sally’s egg cracks, what emerges is something green and scaly with big yellow eyes. Argus isn’t like the other chicks: he isn’t small and fuzzy, and he doesn’t like seeds and bugs. He’d rather eat other chicks (or children, as he grows even bigger). Watching the other kids playing with their identical chicks, Sally wonders, would she be better off without Argus? With sly humor and a subtle tug at the heartstrings, Michelle Knudsen hatches a story about learning not just to tolerate, but to love what is different, while Andréa Wesson’s endearing illustrations bring the tale to life with quirky details and offbeat charm.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780763637903 (0763637904)
Publish date: February 22nd 2011
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Childrens,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Humor,
Academic,
School,
Juvenile,
Picture Books,
Animals,
Storytime,
Dragons
Cute, classroom romp about being different. Recommended!
All of Sally’s class was doing a science project with eggs. Sally’s egg looked different than the other children’s eggs. When the eggs hatched, Sally noticed that her chick, who she named Argus, looked different than the other chicks, green, scaly, and with big yellow eyes. Sally’s teacher reminded ...
Argus offers a nice take on the 'different is cool' theme that is becoming so common in picture books. Sally is given an egg that looks different from all of her classmates' for a class project. The teacher brushes off her worries even when it becomes increasingly clear that Sally's egg is REALLY ...