Eggs in One Basket

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Mackel, Kathy. Eggs in One Basket HarperCollins Publishers. New York, NY. 2000.

Eggs in One Basket, by Kathy Mackel, is a fictional book about a secret agent that is sent out on a quest to search for a valuable item, but something extreme occurs. Eggs in One Basket is not recommended for younger readers, because the dialogue may be hard to follow. This book is recommended for more experienced and older readers.

Eggs In One Basket is a mysterious and adventurous story about a clumsy secret agent named Agent Joe. He is given a quest to go out and find a package, but all Agent Joe knows is he must go to California and search for the package, where he encounters a rabid dog,not just any rabid dog, but the most rabid dog of all time. Conveniently, the dog is guarding the super secret package that this super secret agent needs so he can keep his super secret job.

Later after desperately bribing the dog with his supply of food for the package, Agent Joe later realises that the package he desperately fought for was not the right one! The package he found meant nothing to him whatsoever. After failing his quest, Agent Joe returns back to Nevada were all the other agents are deeply disappointed in his work, so they send him back to California, were he disguises as a hobo (so he isn’t suspicious) and searches for the package hoping to find what he is looking for.

Finally after many long hours of searching for the package, Agent Joe finally finds the package. Inside the package is a bag of multicolored eggs, not Easter eggs, but natural colored eggs. Agent Joe immediately brings the package back to the other agents. The agents are so confused and impressed with what Agent Joe has found they don't know what to do with it, so they wait, and wait, until the eggs hatch. And that, was a terrible mistake. After the eggs hatch, the agents are curious if this is a new species, so they bring the eggs to a group of scientists. Were the scientists find some evidence about the eggs that is shocking!

Eggs In One Basket is a mysterious and interesting children's book. The book’s dialog was very confusing and messy; Trying to follow the writing was very difficult. Also, the book’s grammar didn’t make much sense; new readers should not read this book. All in all, Eggs in One Basket was funny and the script was creative.

1 out of 5 stars

Contributed by A. Valentine

October 26th, 2011