eggs – Perry Nodelman

Eggs Past and/or Eggs to Come

Once more, no eggs are visible in this salt and pepper shaker set But clearly, you can’t have a chicken (or a rooster) without an egg first, right? And if you have a chicken (and, of course, a rooster) then there is a good possibility that you might some time soon have an egg orContinue reading “Eggs Past and/or Eggs to Come”

The Invisible Egg(s)

In this series of posts, I’ve been focussing on what I have identified as eleven eggs that are part of my salt-and-pepper shaker set collection. But it has just occurred to me that there might, in fact, be twelve, or even more, albeit more implied than actually seeable. Consider this set: It is, clearly, aContinue reading “The Invisible Egg(s)”

Hatching

Eggs seven and eight: This pair has chicks busting out all over, none of them in complicated footwear. they seem much too big for their shells–perhaps as much too big as the pair of about-to-hatch chicks of a couple of posts ago look too small for their shells. But too big or too small, allContinue reading “Hatching”

One of Chicken’s Children Got Shoes

The fifth or sixth egg of the eleven in my salt and pepper shaker collection is most notable for its footwear: This freak of nature was born with its shoes already on, it seems. How the shoes got inside the shell is unclear–unless perhaps, those are not shoes at all, but this particular chick’s actualContinue reading “One of Chicken’s Children Got Shoes”

The Moment of Birth (Ab Ovo)

These eggs show some apparently miniature chicks in the process of bursting through their shells: They thus represent the transition from purely abstract, as the eggs in my last post, to cute. I’m not sure exactly why, but they even seem to be smiling–very optimistic and upbeat as they enter their new world, wings flappingContinue reading “The Moment of Birth (Ab Ovo)”

Eggs One and Two

The first two of my almost-a-dozen eggs are the most straightforward pair: They are monochromatic white, with no designs or added features. They are just eggs–or rather, really, not even quite eggs, for the bases that allow them to stand up join seamlessly into their egglike parts, making them look like eggs that come withContinue reading “Eggs One and Two”

Not Quite a Dozen Eggs

In my salt and pepper collection, it appears that I have a grand total of eleven eggs. Here they are: In a series of posts over the next while, I’m planning to look at each of the six sets that includes them separately, to see what the salt and pepper miniverse (at least as representedContinue reading “Not Quite a Dozen Eggs”