Chick and Brain: Egg or Eyeball?
Candlewick Press · Paperback · December 2, 2025
Newbery Honoree Cece Bell follows her offbeat Chick and Brain: Smell My Foot with an even wackier story for beginning readers, sure to elicit eye-rolling squeals of delight.
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- Who it’s for
- A beginning-reader graphic story pairs good-manners mischief with arguments and verbal and visual comedy.
- Themes
- Good manners gone awry, Arguments and disagreements
- Genres
- Beginner Readers, Manners & Etiquette, Funny Stories
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Newbery Honoree Cece Bell follows her offbeat Chick and Brain: Smell My Foot with an even wackier story for beginning readers, sure to elicit eye-rolling squeals of delight. Oh! Oh, oh, oh! Look what Brain found. Chick and Spot say it is an egg. Brain says it is an eyeball. Is it an egg or an eyeball? The inimitable Cece Bell is back with a second hilarious primer on good manners gone awry and arguments run amok.
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Perfectly pitched to kids just learning to read and loaded with verbal and visual comedy, this offbeat graphic story by a master of the genre builds to an exhilaratingly absurd surprise ending.
Manners, Mostly
A beginning-reader graphic story pairs good-manners mischief with arguments and verbal and visual comedy.
Come here for
- Playful wordplay and visual gags
- An argument over whether a discovery is an egg or an eyeball
Expect
- An offbeat story for kids just learning to read
- Manners gone awry and an absurd surprise ending
Where it sits
| Beginner Readers | 60% |
|---|---|
| Funny Stories | 56% |
| Manners & Etiquette | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Funny Stories
- Friendship
- Manners & Etiquette
- Authors
- Cece Bell
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Published
- December 2, 2025
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Good manners gone awry · Arguments and disagreements
- Reading lane
- Funny Stories