"The Marvelous Translated Picture Books of 2019: You wouldn't necessarily know it from the cover, but this is a rather kicky little book about hatching a chicken from an egg. And, with the rise in numbers of people raising chickens in their suburban backyards, perhaps it is expertly timed. Do you remember the beginning of Me, Jane when she sneaks into a henhouse to watch a chicken lay? That's how this book begins. The impatient child must wait and wait, and then there's this neat lift-the-flap sequence, which kind of comes out of nowhere, when the chick finally emerges. It's simple and sweet, but doesn't skimp on the technical details too, which I appreciated." -- Elizabeth Bird , slj.com.