Mum an Dad decide it's time they told the children about the facts of life. Mum says that babies are made out of gingerbread, grown from seeds in the greenhouse, or squidged out of tubes. Dad says that Mummy laid an egg with the two children inside. So it's up to the children to put them right on a few things...

Mummy Laid an Egg!The Bookseller Zusammenfassung Just how are babies made? Erm Well. . . they're delivered by dinosaurs squidged out of tubes and found under stones! In this story the kids put their embarrassed parents straight and dispel the myths surrounding baby-making! growth and birth. Babette Cole careers through the facts of life with her no-nonsense text and funny illustrations.

Autorentext
Babette Cole was born in Jersey in the Channel Islands. She graduated from Canterbury College of Art in 1973 and was the illustrator and author of more than 150 witty, imaginative, irreverent and thought-provoking picture books for children including the bestselling, stereotype-defying Princess Smartypants. She produced animated storyboards for the BBC and illustrated numerous greetings cards and books by other authors as well as her own. Babette adored the countryside and was a keen horse rider and breeder. She spent much of her life in Lincolnshire, before moving to Kent and then westward through Dorset, Devon and Cornwall.

Klappentext

The long-awaited paperback edition of Babette Cole's brilliant introduction to sex for the very young. In >Mummy Laid an Egg!The Bookseller<. This is Babette Cole's first Red Fox title. Readership level: 4 - 7 years.

Zusammenfassung
Just how are babies made? Erm Well. . . they're delivered by dinosaurs squidged out of tubes and found under stones! In this story the kids put their embarrassed parents straight and dispel the myths surrounding baby-making, growth and birth. Babette Cole careers through the facts of life with her no-nonsense text and funny illustrations.