Bentley & Egg

My read aloud with the Grade 2 class was a favorite of mine during this time of year. The book is called "Bentley & Egg" by William Joyce. I will finish reading the book next week, and I left the students wondering what will happen next. The story is about a boy, a musical frog and duck that lays a single egg. The duck needs to leave her egg to go and see her sister's ducklings. She asks her good friend Bentley the frog to care for her egg. He is not enthusiastic about the job, but as time passes he paints the egg and begins to sing to it and truly care for it. Surprisingly, a boy finds the decorated egg, thinking it is an Easter Egg, and takes it home. Bentley is fearful for the egg and goes searching for where the boy and the egg that he loves has gone. To be continued next week....