The Emperor's Egg: Read and Wonder by Martin Jenkins
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Book Reviews of The Emperor's Egg: Read and Wonder
Book Review: informative but sexist
Summary: 3 Stars
The Emperor's Egg contains many facts about the Emperor penguin. However, I found it pretty sexist! I am usually intolerant of over-the-top feminist comments, but this book had one too many digs on the mother penguin for me! I realize that the male is the one who keeps the egg safe for 2 months, but the author mentions the mother eating, getting fat, and having a nice time after leaving the egg, with the father "stuck" taking care of it. He then refers to the egg as "his" egg, not "their" egg, and talks about how miserable the father must be without food and how cold it must be, while the female is off living the life. All of this is nature. The mother does not leave the egg because she does not care. She does her part, and then she comes back. The book is good, but I did not care for many of the adjectives the author chose or the overall tone of the book. If anyone reads this book to our son, maybe it should be my husband. I can hardly stand to.
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