"Nethery has a cheerful and easy-going writing style. You'll have to make sure the audience doesn't engage in wholesale egg plundering from their nearby ponds -- or from their home refrigerators!"
~Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
"Nethery's ingenuous tale is winningly told... an altogether agreeable outing."
~Publisher's Weekly
"Children will be peeping (or quacking) in appreciation."
~Kirkus
Praise for
Mary Veronica's Egg
Mary Veronica's Egg is a story of unconditional love and faith rewarded. What kind of egg does Mary Veronica find by the pond? Her older sister, Mary Louise, think it's just a rotten egg. Her younger sister, Mary Margaret, thinks it's a dinosaur egg and wants it for herself. Mary Veronica doesn't know what's inside her egg, but hopes it will win the marvelous gold ribbon for Most Unusual Pet at the school pet fair. What hatches from the egg brings far more than she ever expected!
by Mary Nethery
Illustrated by Paul Yalowitz
Published by Orchard Books
Mary Veronica's Egg
Mary Nethery would like to express her appreciation to the following illustrators who share in telling the
stories and whose creative work adorns this web site:
Hannah and Jack--Illustrations (c) by Mary Morgan
Orange Cat Goes to Market--Illustrations (c) Doug Cushman
Mary Veronica's Egg--Illustrations (c) by Paul Yalowitz
Two Bobbies--Illustrations (c) by Jean Cassels
The Famous Nini--Illustrations (c) by John Manders
Collage Art on Home Page--(c) by Claudine Hellmuth
Additional Image Manipulation--Nathan Salerno
Webmaster-- Dr. H.A. Nethery