Hatch and Match: A Springtime Seek-and-Find Book

Have fun with colors, patterns, and counting in a search-and-match adventure filled with vibrant, colorful illustrations and a bouncy rhyming text.

Every morning, same but new,
hear the COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO!
Hens jump down, stretch their legs.
Can you help them find their eggs?

Amid a kaleidoscope of colors, chickens with spots, stripes, and zigzags are scritching and scratching and looking for their eggs. There are eggs in a haystack, under a tree, inside a barn, and even tucked in a shoe. Who can help the hens find the eggs that match them before they hatch into chicks? From award-winning New Zealand author-illustrator Ruth Paul comes an energetic concept book that doubles as a celebration of same-but-different creatures everywhere.A bright, busy picture book gives young children a chance to practice their observational skills by seeking and finding gaily decorated things.
—The Wall Street Journal

A terrific way for kids to count chickens before they hatch—and practice other skills besides.
—Kirkus ReviewsRuth Paul is an award-winning writer and illustrator of picture books and a New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate. Her books have been published internationally, and she has twice won the Picture Book Award at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. She is also a champion of her local community of Makara, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, where she lives and looks after a large native forest project.