The Enormous Egg Paperback – April 1, 1993

My 10 year old son loved this book. He likes dinosaurs, so a book about a boy who's hatching a dinosaur egg was a perfect fit for him. The story was easy for him to read and understand, but not too easy where he got bored. He said some things were a little outdated, given that the book was written in the 1960s. It was not something that bothered him in anyway though.

I am a 70 year Young Grandma. My 5th Grade teacher read us "The Enormous Egg" and it is a book I'll never forget, so I purchased it to send to my 10 year old Grandson to read. I also told a Friend and he purchased another copy for his Great Granddaughter. Both Children were delighted!!! I even bought another copy to keep and to have available to share. I was a teacher for many years and this book is a delightful read!

The Enormous Egg was a favorite book in my youth. Later when I had children I read it to them. I loaned my copy out to a family friend for her daughter to read. She loved it. Now I have just bought a new copy and gave it to another family friend’s daughter and she is reading it now. She gives me updates about once a week. I can’t recommend this book enough.

I bought it to read to my 5 and 7 year old grandsons. Might be better for 8 and up. My children had it read to them years ago and they loved it.

I am reading this book aloud to my nearly 5 year old granddaughter. It is our first chapter book together. She absolutely loves it. It's a bit over the head of the 3 year old so does not pay as much attention. She looks forward to our get togethers and it is such a nice, electronics free activity.

I love this book! I first read it when teaching 4th grade and had never heard of it before. I purchased it for my own son to read whom is now in 3rd grade. Sometimes it is difficult to find chapter books with good/respectable male characters and that also have a topic boys will enjoy and dinosaurs and hard working farm family definitely fit the bill! It is an adorable story of a boy who has a triceratops hatch out of a chicken egg on his family farm. This is a great story of friendship and growing up.

This is a childhood favorite of mine and I wanted to share it with my grandkidlets. I love the way it's narrated by a country farm boy whose chicken lays the biggest egg ever. I'm not 100% sure how much my grandkidlets enjoyed the book. It was kind of long for them to listen to, especially at naptime when they were sleepy. I'm still glad I had the opportunity to read it to them. It will always be one of my 'keeper' books.

Fun and funny fantasy about a chicken laying a dinosaur egg on a small farm in Freedom, New Hampshire. There were a few times when I scratched my head and said, this is implausible only to remind myself: it's a story about a hen laying a dinosaur egg! Once the protagonist gets to Washington he encounters an idiot Senator I thought at first to have been drawn too broadly - too much of a fool. Then I heard Rep. Michelle Bachmann and a few others on the news and realized how spot on Butterworth was. This is a classic "boy" story - Nate Twitchell is kin to Homer Price and Henry Huggins; if you liked their books, you're sure to like this.