Argus

Argus is adorable with a capital A. This is a wonderful picture book for children who enjoy outrageously silly stories. There is a message there about how being different is okay, to be welcomed at times, but generally this book is just for fun. It’s so over the top that nobody, no matter how young, Leggi tutto

The "unusual egg which hatches out into a dragon" theme - also explored in middle-grade fantasies such as Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher and Weird Henry Berg , not to mention early readers like Dragon Trouble - is given a schoolroom setting in Michelle Knudson's Argus , a sweet picture-bo

When her class at school does a science project with eggs, Sally’s egg looks very different from the regular white chicken eggs. Hers is much larger and polka-dotted. When the others eggs hatch, the fluffy yellow chicks emerge. When Sally’s egg hatches, out comes something scaly and green. Argus is Leggi tutto

When Mrs. Henshaw hands out eggs for a science project, Sally is concerned because hers looks different. When beaks start poking through the shells of incubated eggs, Sally's comes out green and scaly. The teacher tries to pass off Sally's hatched creature as a chick that looks different. Sally name Leggi tutto

When Sally's class hatches eggs for a science project, all the other kids get fluffy little chicks. Sally gets Argus, a baby dragon that just isn't like the other chicks. Sally struggles to accept Argus, mainly because he is so different. She is even secretly relieved when he gets lost one day. A fu Leggi tutto