The Wonderful Egg (Dahlov Ipcar Collection)

This is such a fun, beautiful book for a child and adult to enjoy about the wonderful egg that is mysteriously found at the beginning of the book! Very educational and gorgeous to look at. Love Dahlov! My kids love her too. Such a gem.

My son was very pleased with this book, a favorite we have checked out many, many times from the library. Condition was very good with only a small tear in the dust jacket.

beautiful illustrations and print quality. The story is too long and boring for me. But the artwork makes up for it.

Originally published in 1958, The Wonderful Egg is being republished this spring by Flying Eye Books (an imprint of Nobrow).I sometimes find it harder to be critical of children's books than adult books for some reason, but I have to be honest. There was so much about this book that bothered me. This is what happens when you republish a book for nostalgic reasons but don't update the incorrect information throughout it. You get this book. A supposedly educational book about dinosaurs with beautiful pictures and maddeningly incorrect information. On every page. Oh it made my brain hurt. Even my four-year-old was spotting the errors. "That's not a dinosaur!" "The flying ones were reptiles, but not dinosaurs!" "Wait, there were mammals alive at that time too!"Don't be fooled by this promise of educational information. There is incorrect information on virtually EVERY PAGE.[For a list of some of the errors that most annoyed me, along with illustrations from the book, visit my blog, Cozy Little Book Journal.]It's clear to me that the biggest selling feature of this book is the artwork and the nostalgia it is supposed to inspire. Maybe that would be fine if it wasn't presented as educational. If you really want to republish a dinosaur book with beautiful pictures but completely wrong info, perhaps you should also get permission to update the text.

Such a great book. If you artsy and love dinosaurs, this book is for you. A simple story (with great art and colors) that teaches about different dinosaurs.

I think the reviewer before me was very critical of this book! This is a wonderfully written and illustrated book. I bought it for the illustrations as I am currently studying children's book illustration and was so inspired by the style.Dahlov Ipcar has created a beautiful book which would be loved by any child. I will certainly buy more of her books to add to my collection in the future!

Would have been really helpful to see inside the book. Bought it for the illustrations which are lovely but far too many words for the age group and not sure about the ending as it moved from factual to whimsey.

A beautiful book!

Fantastic artwork and educational.

A great birthday gift.