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Reviewed by Courtnee Turner Hoyle for Readers' Favorite
Just One More Egg: A Science Folktale is a beautiful children’s story by Lois Wickstrom about the love of a mother warbler for an egg that was not her own. Francie Mion's pictures depict a mother warbler sitting on her nest with five eggs until a cuckoo aggressively drops off its own egg. The mother warbler decides to care for the egg and, on its hatching, feeds the young cuckoo. Even though a neighboring warbler, who has eggs in a nest of her own, tells her to get rid of the cuckoo, the mother warbler refuses, and when a cat tries to invade her nest and steal her eggs, the natural defenses of the cuckoo may prove to keep the nest safe.
I can see Just One More Egg as a good conversation starter for children who have witnessed cats and snakes eat eggs out of nests, so they realize it is part of the biological cycle. There are several ways librarians and teachers could use the book to begin a lesson about the food chain or the symbiotic relationship between certain types of birds, namely brood parasitism. The idea that cuckoos leave their eggs with other birds is fascinating, and readers can investigate the idea more after they read the story. Francie Mion's illustrations appear classic, with colors that will grab the attention of young readers. The pages aren’t overburdened by text, and Lois Wickstrom’s story is concisely told with a clear lesson. I recommend the book for children up to eight years old, as my children are within that age group, and they all enjoyed the story.
