Matthew's Childrens Book 5/8

The Adventures of Egbert the Easter Egg

By Richard Armour and Paul Galdone

This loveable children’s book tells the story of an Egg named Egbert and the boy who realised his uniqueness amongst all other identical Eggs. Egbert longs to be different, waiting for Easter to come so he could finally be painted. Instead of getting any old Easter egg paint job Egbert was decorated with a face and he was so proud of it. In the Easter egg hunt Egbert isn’t found by any of the children and is left out in the rain and cold. This sparked a journey and Egbert rolled from place to place until he finally found his way back to the child who had painted him. The boy recognised Egbert apart from all the other eggs and he was home at last.  The author conveys the theme of being different and special through an egg whom the reader creates and attachment with and despite being an everyday common object is given an almost a personality by the addition of a face.