Egg or Eyeball? (Chick and Brain Series #2)

by Cece Bell, Cece Bell (Illustrator)

Overview

Newbery Honoree Cece Bell follows her offbeat Chick and Brain: Smell My Foot with an even wackier story for beginning readers, sure to elicit eye-rolling squeals of delight.

Oh! Oh, oh, oh! Look what Brain found. Chick and Spot say it is an egg. Brain says it is an eyeball. Is it an egg or an eyeball? The inimitable Cece Bell is back with a second hilarious primer on good manners gone awry and arguments run amok. Perfectly pitched to kids just learning to read and loaded with verbal and visual comedy, this offbeat graphic story by a master of the genre builds to an exhilaratingly absurd surprise ending.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781536216912
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	03/10/2020
Series:	Chick and Brain Series , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Lexile:	GN200L (what's this?)
File size:	97 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Cece Bell is the author-illustrator of Chick and Brain: Smell My Foot! as well as the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book Rabbit and Robot: The Sleepover and the Newbery Honor Book El Deafo. She is also the creator of the Sock Monkey picture books and Chuck and Woodchuck. Cece Bell learned to read with Dick and Jane, and now she hopes children will learn to read with Chick and Brain. She lives in Virginia with her family.

Cece Bell is a lifelong resident of Virginia (except for those three years she disappeared in Ohio). She lives in an old white church and works in a new red barn right next door. She is married to author-illustrator Tom Angleberger.

She works in a variety of media, both digital and old-school. Somehow, all her books end up being about friendship. All her books end up being kind of nutty, too.

Cece Bell’s books include the Sock Monkey picture books as well as the 2013 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book Rabbit and Robot: The Sleepover.

As a kid, Cece nearly fainted when she saw A Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats for the first time; it was that beautiful. She learned how to draw by doing all the doodles in the Ed Emberley books from her school library. She still has not learned how to ride an elevator without fear.

In 2015 she was awarded a Newbery Honor for her graphic memoir El Deafo.

Editorial Reviews

04/03/2020

K-Gr 2—A bird named Chick, a goofy, underwear-clad human named Brain, and their friend Spot the dog return for another surreal graphic novel, a follow-up to last year's Smell My Foot. When Brain finds a white oval, he's convinced it's an eyeball, but an exasperated Chick tells him it's an egg—"I know because I was an egg. I am a baby chicken. And I came out of a lady chicken." Spot concurs with Chick and demands to eat the egg. The humor revolves around comical misunderstandings, Brain's intelligence (or lack thereof), Chick's insistence on good manners, and the ridiculous debate that becomes more and more absurd. Bell's colorful cartoons are equally hilarious; they get bigger and bolder as the action becomes increasingly frenzied. The story is divided into four chapters, with one to four panels per page. VERDICT For early readers (and grownups who read to them) who love funny tales; fans of the earlier installment will especially get a kick out of this one.—Andrea Lipinski, New York Public Library

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