Hattie Peck

by Emma Levey, Emma Levey (Illustrator)

Overview

Little Hattie Peck loved eggs!

Big ones, small ones, speckled ones. All she wanted was an egg of her own.

One day, Hattie left her cozy coop on an adventure to find all the abandoned eggs of the world. And find them she did! But what will happen when they hatch?

Hattie Peck can be used to help children and adults to talk about the importance of family, including adoption and fostering.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781917082747
Publisher:	Gemini Books Group
Publication date:	01/28/2025
Series:	Picture Books - Gemini Children
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.45(w) x 11.02(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	3 Months

About the Author

Like Hattie and her collection of eggs, Emma Levey has an enviable collection of talents, working in everything from print, to gouache, to photography and 3D. Emma is based in a teeny, tiny village called Llancarfan in the South of Wales and her surroundings inspire her over-active imagination. Emma has a ridiculous obsession with her cat Gimli, who pops up from time to time in her work!

Editorial Reviews

“A sweet tribute to a mother’s love, this book is a recommended general purchase for readers in all libraries.” –School Library Journal

“A sweet tribute to a mother’s love, this book is a recommended general purchase for readers in all libraries.” –School Library Journal

From the Publisher

05/01/2016
PreS-Gr 2—Hattie Peck is a hen who thinks and dreams about eggs—lots of eggs, big and small. Hattie laid an egg of her own only once, and it never hatched, so she now begins a journey to rescue abandoned eggs and hatch every one of them. For days and weeks she searches, across the ocean, through villages and great cities, over mountains, and through caves, fire, wind, rain, and snow, so that each lonely egg may be brought home and hatched. Hattie, with her distinctively painted teal feathers, rides the frothing arc of a wave, rolls eggs down a tiled roof as though playing a delicate game of Plinko, and glides across an endless cityscape in a parachute harness as she doggedly moves a tower of precious eggs homeward in a series of painted vignettes highlighting the enormity of her struggles. Hattie is, at last, a mom. The spread of the hen coop and more than 40 of Hattie's "chicks" sporting hand-knitted outerwear is marked by changes in font and a comic sense of the absurd. VERDICT A sweet tribute to a mother's love, this book is a recommended general purchase for readers in all libraries.—Mary Elam, Learning Media Services, Plano ISD, TX

School Library Journal