Hazel and Twig: The Lost Egg

by Brenna Burns Yu, Brenna Burns Yu (Illustrator)

Overview

Adorable mouse sisters Hazel and Twig find an egg and want to hatch it themselves — but is it really theirs for the taking?

Hazel and Twig are playing in the meadow one day when they discover an egg. “Let’s hatch it together!” suggests Hazel, and they sit on it to keep it warm. But an egg takes a very long time to hatch, so the sisters decide to bring the egg home with them. Hazel dreams of all the ways they will take care of their new pet after it hatches — building it a nest, teaching it to fly, and finding worms for it to eat. But is there a bird out there who will miss their egg? Brenna Burns Yu returns to the enchanting miniature world of Korean-American mouse siblings Hazel and Twig in a story about sisterhood, observation and discovery, and lost things coming home. Abloom with delicate natural details, this tale is perfect for any kid who has ever asked “Can I keep it?”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781536204926
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	03/17/2020
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	638,077
Product dimensions:	7.75(w) x 9.38(h) x 0.42(d)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Brenna Burns Yu has an MFA from the Fiber department of Cranbook Academy of Art. Hazel and Twig: The Birthday Fortune was her first picture book. She lives in Connecticut with her family.

Editorial Reviews

Hazel and Twig return for a tender, mouse-sized story about sisterhood, nature, and belonging...A gentle, wholly accessible tale of quiet curiosity, the love of family, and the hatching of eggs.
—Kirkus Reviews

With this second adventure under their quite-tiny belts, Hazel and Twig seem poised to join Chirri and Chirra (Chirri & Chirra, rev. 1/17, and sequels), and the Mole Sisters (The Mole Sisters and the Cool Breeze, and sequels) before them, as memorable sister duos.
—The Horn Book

From the Publisher

2019-11-24
Hazel and Twig return for a tender, mouse-sized story about sisterhood, nature, and belonging.

In this follow-up to The Birthday Fortune (2018), Hazel and Twig are woodland discoverers of simple wonder. Hazel is the older sister, full of answers and slightly bothered by wandering younger sister Twig. Twig, bringing a toddlerlike joy to each page, undoes Hazel's daisy chain, loses her own shoe, and finds an abandoned egg. With help from their parents (with Korean names of Umma and Appa, which mean mother and father), the sisters plan for the raising of their newfound egg, including flight lessons and worm catching. But when Twig is separated from the family, Hazel appreciates the importance of reuniting this baby with its parents. The care the mouse sisters show for the lost egg as they search for its nest is earnest and serious. They carefully compare its size and color to other eggs they find. In a world full of pastel-green grass and pink skies, delicate flora and fauna invite a closer look on every page. Done in ink and watercolor, the illustrations include one special page where Yu takes inspiration from the works of 18th-century naturalist James Bolton. In this outing, the Korean references are subtle, almost like a secret.

A gentle, wholly accessible tale of quiet curiosity, the love of family, and the hatching of eggs. (Picture book. 3-5)

Kirkus Reviews