EGGcellent Books About Eggs For Kids

Which came first- the chicken or the egg? Well, I did create a chicken book list first so I guess we’ll go with that. But, today I have books about eggs for kids for you to enjoy reading aloud to the children in your life.

Egg Board Books

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Where Are the Eggs? by Grace Lin invites us to walk around and look behind, in the middle, and next to things to locate the eggs.

Egg, Egg, Egg! by Sarah Finan celebrates the variety of way to eat eggs- scrambled, fried, poached… How do you like them?

Picture Books About Eggs

Egg by Kevin Henkes seems like a simple book but it is full of things to notice. Three eggs hatch and one doesn’t. What will the birds discover about the green egg.

How to Hatch: A Gosling’s Guide to Breaking Free by Sara Holly Ackerman is an informational book about the hatching of a gosling told in a funny and engaging way.

Eggs From Red Hen Farm: Farm to Table with Mazes and Maps by Monica Wellington invites readers right into the book. ⁣Many of the page spreads have a map/maze the students can use their fingers to maneuver around based on the text. ⁣Help Ned and Ruby get the eggs from the farm into the hands of people who can use them.

Speaking of birds, enjoy the beautiful wordless book,Nesting by Henry Cole. Get up close and personal with the beautiful robin blue eggs.

An Egg is Quiet by Dianna Aston explores all the eggs that appear in nature. How many colors of eggs do you think there are? Who lays eggs? What sizes do them come in. Take a nature walk and see in the pages of this book.

Shake a Leg, Egg! by Kurt Cyrus is the story of the one last goose egg that is slow to hatch. We get a close-up and birds-eye-view of the highly anticipated scene.

The Good Egg by Jory John is book two in the Food Group Series. Our Good Egg has trouble staying good under all the pressure around it. It really can be tiring always trying to be perfect especially in an imperfect world. We all need a little balance.

The Donkey Egg by Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel is the story of bear tending to a donkey egg. Say what? Look closely and you’ll see that the egg is very green and fruity. But, it does end up bearing a donkey and another sweet reward.

Peg’s Egg by Jo Renfro would pair nicely with the book above. This time we have another egg want to be that isn’t what it appears. Cue the giggles.

The farm has been invited to Eggday. Will goat, horse, pig, or chicken have the best decorated egg? Nope, duck wins with a real life surprise. Check out Eggday by Joyce Dunbar.

Humpty Dumpty has to face his fears and overcome them in After the Fall by Dan Santat.

Easter Egg Books

The Great Easter Egg Hunt by Rachel Piercey will keep young children busy looking for eggs in the detailed beautiful pictures.

Forget Christmas tree farms. How about Easter egg farms? That’s exactly what happens in The Easter Egg Farm by Mary Jane Auch.

Bentley & Egg by William Joyce follows a frog who is in charge of watching a duck egg. He decides that the white egg is boring and colorfully decorates it. Well, it is mistaken for an Easter egg and the adventure begins.