Egg Drop
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2002 by Mini Grey
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Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in 2002 in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Grey, Mini.
Egg drop / Mini Grey. — 1st American ed.
p. cm.
Originally published: Great Britain : Jonathan Cape, 2002.
Summary: Tragedy strikes when an egg, eager to fly like birds, airplanes, and insects, steps off of a tall tower.
ISBN 978-0-375-84260-3 (trade)
ISBN 978-0-375-94260-0 (lib. bdg.)
ISBN 978-0-375-98549-2 (ebook)
[1. Eggs—Fiction. 2. Flight—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.G873EG 2009
[E]—DC22
2008024534
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v3.1
To Tony
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
First Page
About the Author and Illustrator
The Egg was young.
It didn’t know much.
We tried to tell it,
but of course it didn’t listen.
If only it had waited.
Here is the story of the Egg that wanted to fly.
The Egg had always loved looking up,
seeing birds and balloons,
airplanes and insects,
helicopters and bats and clouds.
The Egg wanted to fly with them.
It dreamed of ways to fly.
But the Egg was young.
It didn’t know much about flying
(and it didn’t know anything
about aerodynamics
or Bernoulli’s principle).
It just knew that it
had to get up high.
There was
a very tall tower
made of bricks
on a hill.
Inside there were
583 stone steps.
The Egg climbed
to the top.
The Egg was in the clouds.
A bird flew past.
The Egg squeezed its eyes shut.
It drew a deep breath.
It took a step into space.
There was an enormous egg rush.
The Egg opened its eyes and saw
friends in the air, felt sky blasting past.
But the Egg
was not flying.
It was falling.
It took us a while to clean up the mess.
We tried to put the Egg back together again, but nothing really worked and shells don’t heal.
The Egg was young.
It didn’t listen.
If only it had waited.
Luckily, the Egg was not wasted.
MINI GREY was born in a Mini Cooper car in a parking lot in Wales, thus her name, Mini. She studied art and then worked as a theater designer and elementary school teacher before devoting full time to writing and illustrating very funny, totally original picture books. Her Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner Traction Man Is Here! as well as Traction Man Meets Turbodog and Traction Man and the Beach Odyssey have won her many fans. Other picture books she has written and illustrated include the Kate Greenaway Medal winner The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon, the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize Gold Award winner Ginger Bear, and The Very Smart Pea and the Princess-to-Be. Her audacious heroes and heroines—inanimate objects with minds of their own—are unlike any you’ve met before! Mini Grey lives in Oxford, England, with her husband, Tony, and young son, Herbie.
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