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A review by vermidian
The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth
3.0
The Enormous Egg is a story about a little boy who notices one of the hens in their parents chicken coop is abnormally large. Soon after, the hen lays an enormous egg! Nate vows to care for the egg, turning it and making sure everything is good. But when it hatches, it isn't a chicken. It's not even a bird. In fact, it's a baby triceratops! From there, he's guided by paleontologist Dr. Zeimer, who helps him make some of the bigger decisions as his dinosaur got larger and larger.
My only complaint is how comical some of the adults in the story seem. Particularly in the case of the beer mogul and the senator, both are absurdly ridiculous in how they approach Uncle Beasley. One wants to use and abuse it - which I'm not sure but that might actually be realistic given the laws regarding animal cruelty of the time - while the other is just simply bizarre. I mean, who looks at a miraculously born dinosaur and worries about the cost of the alfalfa that it would take to feed it at the zoo. His priorities were just so bizarre that it wasn't believable to me.
Other than that, I think it's a very good book. Odd and not tremendously accurate in terms of scientific accuracy, but a fun read all the same.
My only complaint is how comical some of the adults in the story seem. Particularly in the case of the beer mogul and the senator, both are absurdly ridiculous in how they approach Uncle Beasley. One wants to use and abuse it - which I'm not sure but that might actually be realistic given the laws regarding animal cruelty of the time - while the other is just simply bizarre. I mean, who looks at a miraculously born dinosaur and worries about the cost of the alfalfa that it would take to feed it at the zoo. His priorities were just so bizarre that it wasn't believable to me.
Other than that, I think it's a very good book. Odd and not tremendously accurate in terms of scientific accuracy, but a fun read all the same.