The Goose Egg
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Publisher Description
From the author of Jumpstart's Read for the Record pick Quackers comes the story of Henrietta the Elephant, whose life goes from calm to chaotic when a baby goose comes to stay.
Henrietta likes her quiet life. A morning swim, a cup of tea--all is serene.
But everything changes when she bumps her head and winds up with a goose egg--a REAL goose egg. Henrietta tries to return the baby goose to the nest, but her flock has flown. It's up to Henrietta to raise her.
Goose isn't anything like Henrietta. She's flappy, and noisy, and exhausting. But Henrietta raises that goose right. She teaches her to swim, and to honk, and to fly. When Goose flies off with the other geese, Henrietta is so proud!
And then . . . lonely. How quiet her life feels now.
But the love you give has a way of coming back to you. And Henrietta has a wonderful surprise in store. . . .
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Henrietta is a quiet-loving elephant who "savored the stillness of the morning as she sipped her Darjeeling" from a porcelain teacup grasped in her trunk. She enjoys swimming underwater in the lake, where she gets "lost... in her thoughts." One day, though, she gets "a little too lost" and drifts head-first into a piling, knocking a goose egg from its nest. She's unaware that the egg has landed between her ears, so when she feels a metaphorical "goose egg," she dutifully bandages her sore head and waits "for the bump to heal." After the fuzzy gosling hatches from the egg and identifies Henrietta as "Mama!", and her actual mother is nowhere to be found, the pachyderm takes the imprinting to heart, painting her face and trunk to resemble a goose's body and neck as a teaching aid before she shows the gosling how to look for food, swim, and flap her wings. Though Henrietta urges Goose to fly, the elephant doesn't love the quiet so much after her charge is gone. Wong (Quackers) solves that conundrum in a cacophonous finale to her quirky family tale. Ages 4 8.
