A Handful of Eggs

Exactly how many eggs is ‘a handful’?

Poor Phlox is worried – are the eggs in the oven all hers?

And what will happen if one of them belongs to somebody else?

Finalist in the 2017 Wishing Shelf Awards, children's 3-5 age category.

Phlox is a fire-living salamander, which means she loves everything to always be toasty-warm. That is why she has laid a handful of beautiful green eggs in the coals of Esmeralda Twig’s oven! But, oh no! – How many eggs is a handful?!

(Don’t worry about the eggs though, baby fire lizards need the extra warmth to grow strong and curious inside their emerald eggshells.)