December Read/Alma

Title: The Enormous EGG

Author: Butterworth, Oliver

THIS IS MY FIRST ENGLISH BOOK WHICH I HAVE red. Let me try to introduce the interesting story to you.

Nate is a general boy, 12 years old, he is living in a small town in the New Hampshire.  He grows up in his farm family.

The thing surprise everybody happened on his summer holiday.

One morning, Nate found his hen laid an enormous egg in their coop .It is so huge, even is big as same as the hen! But the hen still like it and take care of it. So she want to hatch it out. Of course it is a very formidable task. But she insisted it for five weeks although everybody give up, except Nate. He think it was normal that cost longtime to hatch out, because sometimes hatch a goose maybe take 3 weeks, besides his egg is enormous! So Nate helped his hen to turn the egg over for several times everyday even in the midnight.

At last, 6 weeks past, they did it and got a big surprise. It is a baby dinosaur which has disappeared before long long ago.

Nate decide feed him by himself. Every morning Nate walks with his baby in the street. And usually many kids walk together with them follow the dinosaur. It make him fill so good.

Scientists come to the small town to explore from all over the country,  that make his backyard mess. But the biggest problem is it grow so fast, food is limited. Luckily the baby just eats grasses, not meat.

Now Nate had to think about let the baby go. He is very sad. But Dr. help him.  The national museum in Washington DC would like to accept it. And Nate will still take care of it for 3 weeks. This is another gift to Nate because he never go to there before.

But usually the museum only collects specimens, so the dinosaur made some big troubles in the museum. When Nate walks with his friend in the street in the early morning, the dinosaur crack up the car and people scare away, anyway the street is mess.

They have to move him to a zoo, but only after 1 day , the zoo wouldn’t like to adopt him. Because his appetite is too big, they think it waste the money of taxpayer. People argue about keeping it or kill it.

Nate was very anxious if he can’t protect his friend. In a TV interview, he told the whole story since he had the egg, took care of it like if he is his pet, as a friend, and the dinosaur is always very kindly to everybody except eat too much and grow too fast. He is absolutely unacceptable anybody kill his pet. His speech touched the audience.

On the second day, many people went to the zoo objection. Finally they raise money for feeding the dinosaur , they got the enough money to feed for all his life.

When Nate come back hometown, he was like a little hero. His family is proud of his action.