Eggbert Flannel Story

I fell in love with Tom Ross's Story of Eggbert the Slightly Cracked Egg many years ago. Fortunately, the paperback is still available too.

For some reason I am drawn to picture books about individuality.

Anyway, you all don't need to know that, I just wanted to introduce a Felt version of this story that I tell in both storytime and laptime. And, of course, I always display copies of the book for patrons to check out at the end. Furthermore, if you fall in love with the story like I did you might not be able to resist picking up that paperback for your own home library!


Eggbert the Slightly Cracked Egg by Tom Ross

Eggbert


...and it is discovered...


...and Eggbert is told he must leave...

Wow, he can stay here...

Aha! An idea, no one needs to know...

Better than butter and lettuce!

Tada!

Oh, but it is discovered that you cannot get nectar from an egg...

The most beautiful thing he has ever seen!

And WALLA!
(this one always gets a good giggle)

After the rain, the clouds parted...

And Eggbert realizes...

that cracks just let the sun shine through.

Individuality

I am who I am!

Learn what you need to learn,
Do what you have to do,
and you too can
Become what you dream.

Books for Storytimes:

Being your own kind of best

Eggbert, The Slightly Cracked Egg by Tom Ross
Felt story


Sunflower Sal by Janet Anderson


Regular Flood of Mishap by Tom Birdseye


Hooway For Wodney Wat by Helen Lester
- this book is best for Elementary age kids, not Preschool.


Library Mouse by Daniel Kirk
~ great idea - mirror in tissue box!

We may all be individuals, but one thing is for certain, we still all had a mom and a dad

In a House sung by Rachel Coleman from Signing Time
In a house in a home there are mothers and fathers...

And sometimes - we are all the same

Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox

Bees

BuZzZZZZZ BzzZZZZz Bees!


BzZ BZzZ BZzzzzZ B BZzzzzZZzz!

What? What is that?

BZzzzZ BZZ BzzzZZ B BZZZ! BZzzZ BZZ BZZ B BZzzzzZZ!

Oh, could it be? Is it ...

A Bee?

A BIG Bee

A Big BOLD Bee

A Big Bold BUMBLE Bee?

A Big Bold BABY Bumble Bee?

BZZ BzzzZZ BZZ BzzzZZ B BZzzZZ! BZzzzZTTT

I Caught it!


I'm Bringing Home a Baby Bumble Bee

I'm bringing home a baby bumble bee
~'Catch' a bumblebee, swing clasped hands back and forth
Won't my mommy be so proud of me

I'm bringing home a baby bumble bee
Ouch! He stung me!
~Show true stunned surprise, you mean bees sting people!??

I'm squishing up a baby bumble bee
~squish palms together, squish, squish, squish
Won't me mommy be so proud of me

I'm squishing up a baby bumble bee
Ewwww, it's all over me!
~look at palms, gee whiz, I didn't think it would do that!

I'm wiping off a baby bumble bee
~wipe palms on pants, up and back, keep the rythm
Won't my mommy be so proud of me

I'm wiping off a baby bumble bee
ughhhh, it's all yucky!
~look at hands and pants, oh, what a mess!

I'm licking off a baby bumble bee
~pretend to lick palms, the trick is to make it SOUND real ;)
Won't my mommy be so proud of me

I'm licking off a baby bumble bee
bleck! Now that is really yucky!
~shudder like you just tasted something truly terrible!

My mommy won't be proud of me!
~shake finger, on hand on hip, sly little devil look on your face


Oh, I don't think I'll ever catch a bumble bee ever again! Even if it was a baby bumble bee!

Oooo, but look here is a hive...


Here is the Hive

Here is the hive
~hold closed fist up
But where are the bees?
~shrug shoulders

Hidden inside
~point to fist
Where nobody sees
~shake finger, 'nobody', point to eyes, 'see'

expectant pause... closed fist starts to shimmer and shake...

Oh, oh OH!
1 2 3 4 5
~fingers pop up, counting

They're alive! They're alive!
~let your figners go TICKLING!


That's it. I'm never going to play with bee or a hive ever again! I think bees are just not very nice at all.

I know, let's talk about someone nice. Someone who I happen to know is very nice. His name is Eggbert...
~ pull over a flannel board with Eggbert there, sitting and just waiting for us
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This is a long story for Laptime, so I have turned it into a FELT story.
If told with animation and spunk, it works well even for the littlest of storytime attendees.
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Now Eggbert, he is just about the nicest egg you ever saw.

Oh, but one day...

It was discovered...

That Eggbert had a CRACK!



Now, I don't know about how it is in your house kids, but here, where Eggbert lived, cracked eggs were just NOT allowed...


Eggbert the Slightly Cracked Egg by Tom Ross
There is a delightfully nosy and not-so-friendly bee in one part of this story!

The bee part: I stick a finger puppet bee on my finger and it goes out busily collecting delicious nectar from all the kids and flowers. Then, 'Bzzt bzzt BZZ BZZ BZZ B BZZZTTT! And it is discovered that you cannot get nectar from an egg. And that bee tells Eggbert that he cannot stay.'