Hatch and Match: A Springtime Seek-and-Find Book

"Hatch and Match" is an energetic and visually stimulating concept book that invites young readers to participate in a springtime adventure. Award-winning author-illustrator Ruth Paul uses vibrant illustrations and engaging rhyming text to create a seek-and-find challenge. Children will delight in helping a diverse group of hens locate their uniquely patterned eggs, hidden in various farm settings, before they hatch into chicks. This book is perfect for preschoolers and early elementary children, offering opportunities to practice color recognition, pattern matching, and counting in a fun, interactive way. It also subtly introduces themes of helping and the joy of new life.

Have fun with colors, patterns, and counting in a search-and-match adventure filled with vibrant, colorful illustrations and a bouncy rhyming text. Every morning, same but new, hear the COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO! Hens jump down, stretch their legs. Can you help them find their eggs? Amid a kaleidoscope of colors, chickens with spots, stripes, and zigzags are scritching and scratching and looking for their eggs. There are eggs in a haystack, under a tree, inside a barn, and even tucked in a shoe. Who can help the hens find the eggs that match them before they hatch into chicks? From award-winning New Zealand author-illustrator Ruth Paul comes an energetic concept book that doubles as a celebration of same-but-different creatures everywhere.