Copyright 1967
I’m always on the look-out for interactive board books for
the youngest children. Fortunately,
these days there is an abundance of high quality books for infants and toddlers
and I have a difficult time narrowing down which ones to purchase for my
library. I was surprised when I found
this board book from 1967 at a used book store recently, since I didn’t think
there were many from that time. This is
a great interactive story for babies and toddlers that is also, importantly,
fairly indestructible.
One day, Henny lays an egg up in the hayloft. It rolls
through a hole in the floor and poor Henny runs off to find it. The egg continues to roll, past many of
Henny’s farmyard friends. All along the
way, a child can poke his finger through the hole in the pages to anticipate
and feel what is coming at the end. For
after the long journey the rolling egg takes, Henny finds not the egg she was
expecting, but her sweet little chick, just hatched!
It is an unexpected happy ending to a harrowing day for
Henny. Hopefully she learned her lesson
to keep a closer watch over her unhatched babies!
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