THE WONDERFUL EGGS OF FURICCHIA

by Anne Rockwell ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 27, 1969

Self-seeking Maddalena wants some of Furicchia's magic eggs to improve her fortune but Furicchia won't sell at first because Maddalena lacks the requisite ""kind heart."" Although Maddalena wins the argument, weeks of omelets and hard-boiled dinners don't change a thing-so she sneaks into Furicchia's house and drinks the hen's special brew. Maddalena thinks she is finally becoming lovelier but gradually she turns into a hen, whose eggs hatch into neither chickens nor people, but ""mice, and they all ran away."" Cold colors fill familiar contours in this story based on a fifteenth century Florentine strega (witch) and the little surprise end is not worth all the preliminaries.

Pub Date: March 27, 1969

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: World

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1969

Categories: CHILDREN'S