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  For Gee Gee

  Hen has some eggs.

  One is big.

  The rest are small.

  “This is not my egg!” says Hen.

  “Is it a cat egg?”

  “No,” says Cat.

  “Is it a dog egg?”

  “No,” says Dog.

  “Is it a pig egg?”

  “No,” says Pig.

  “Is it a cow egg?”

  “No,” says Cow.

  “Is it a goat egg?”

  “No,” says Goat.

  “Is it a fox egg?”

  “YES!” says Fox.

  The small eggs crack.

  “Peep! Peep!”

  say the small chicks.

  The big egg cracks.

  “SQUAWK!”

  says the big chick.

  “Run!” says Hen.

  Hen has some chicks.

  One is big.

  The rest are small.

  Hen loves them all.

  Copyright © 1997 by Molly Coxe. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Coxe, Molly.

  Big egg / by Molly Coxe. p. cm. — (Step into reading. A step 1 book)

  SUMMARY: A mother hen wakes up one morning to find a gigantic egg among the others in her nest and goes in search of the egg’s origin.

  eISBN: 978-0-307-55468-0

  [1. Chickens—Fiction. 2. Ostriches—Fiction. 3. Animals—Infancy—Fiction. 4. Domestic animals—Fiction.] I. Title. II. Series: Step into reading. Step 1 book.

  PZ7.C839424 Bi 2003 [E]—dc21 2002015105

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  Molly Coxe, Big Egg

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