Have You Seen My Egg?
Age range 2 to 5
Eddy Emu has lost one of his eggs. He travels far and wide, looking for it. Has Lizzie Lizard seen it? Has Susie Spider found it? Is it among Connie Crocodile’s eggs? Can Pip and Poppy Penguin help him?
Join Eddy on his search and meet his friends. See all their different eggs and then lift the flap to meet the babies that have just hatched. And, finally, find out what happened to Eddy’s egg.
Marvel over Rhonda’s stunning watercolours of our native animals, painted in their natural surroundings. Accompany Eddy Emu as he wanders through realistically portrayed gum trees and scrub down to sand dunes and the sea, looking for his missing egg.
Informative text at the back of the book explains about the different types of eggs belonging to the animals in the story.
About the author:
Dr Penny Olsen is an Honorary Professor in the Division of Ecology and
Evolution in the Research School of Biology. After a career as a field
biologist and ecological consultant, she has is now mostly occupied
writing books about Australian natural history and its recorders. In
2011 she was invested as a Member of the Order of the Australia for
her for ‘service to the conservation sciences through the study and
documentation of Australian bird species and their history.’ Her recent
publications include a book about Indigenous Australians’ contributions
to our understanding of Australia’s fauna – Australia’s First Zoologists –
and Flight of the Budgerigar: An Illustrated History.
About the illustrator:
Rhonda N. Garward has studied drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture and paper
making. She has taken part in solo and group exhibitions in painting
and printmaking, and won prizes in drawing, painting and contemporary
art. Rhonda has exhibited at the Guangzhou International Art Fair in
China, and she has been invited to exhibit at the Florence International
Biennale. Rhonda’s art works in watercolour, mixed media and acrylics
are based on Australian themes. Birds, fish, animals, the bush and the
sea are used to create naturalistic and evocative art works. Her works are
held in public and private collections throughout Australia and worldwide.
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