Turtle Egg Pop-Ups

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Small, die-cut oval board books, the titles in the Egg Pop-Ups series describe the courtship rituals, nesting habits and eventual hatchings of an assortment of birds and reptiles. Soft-colored, full-bleed artwork enlivens a brief, informative text which imparts a wide variety of information in a conversational tone. The reader learns, for example, that owls prefer to lay their eggs in abandoned crow and squirrel nests, that male penguins tempt potential mates by showing off the bright orange patches on their cheeks and that young crocodiles ``love to sunbathe on their mother's back.'' The big payoff, however, is the perky, neatly engineered model of a hatchling creature that pops up in each book's final spread. Ages 3-8. (Mar.)