His mother died after falling on a slippery spot where no one had warned anyone. Like, why does David think it's so important to keep all the rules? Where did Primrose's father go? What is with the waving man? Is there any symbolism to the little turtle David carries around?ġ.

There were a lot of things all through the story that I questioned, and then soon found the answers to. Maybe they were actually eggs - sensitive yet also very tough?

I thought that was an odd reason to call the book Eggs because nothing much happened with eggs after that. “Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving fence around it so he didn't keep falling in.”ĭavid and Primrose meet during an Easter Egg hunt. The theme that is big in Roald Dahl books of missing adults exists here, but it is handled way differently. If you've ever lost someone you felt like you just couldn't live without, or if you've ever felt like you just didn't fit in your family, or if you've said, 'If I just do X then Y will happen', or if you've ever had a quirky friendship, or if you've ever loved someone who you just have to watch them work through issues, or if you've ever felt like you just didn't get what you needed from your family, then you'll get this book. But I loved StarGirl so much as well as Eggs, that I will say I'm a big fan. And.actually, that's all I've read until Eggs. Well, truthfully, I wasn't a fan of Loser. The first Jerry Spinelli book I read was StarGirl.

Eggs by Jerry Spinelli