The Woman With the Eggs

Our generation has been said to be the first to grow up on slogans rather than proverbs. To our loss. One way to combat that omission is to read picture books, especially those serving up folklore. In 1836, when he was thirty years old, Hans Christian Andersen published a simple poetic version of the proverb--Don't count your chickens before they hatch. In 1974 Jan Wahl and Ray Cruz teamed up to put that poem into what is probably the most colorful picture book I have seen. This out-of-print, hard-to-find book is, of course, available to borrow from the Mason County Christian School library.