Name: Chick and Brain: Egg or Eyeball?
ISBN: 9781536215700

At a Glance

Why This Clicks

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

Book Details

Authors: Cece Bell
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: December 2, 2025
Format: Paperback
Theme: Bird Stories · Manners & Etiquette
Reading lane: Bird Stories

Affinity

Publisher Categories

Funny Stories
Friendship
Manners & Etiquette

About This Book

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. Perfectly pitched to kids just learning to read and loaded wit...

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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. 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.