The Eggs: A Greek Folk Tale Retold and Illustrated
by Aliki
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Six years earlier the sea captain had forgotten to pay for a dinner of four eggs. When he returns to settle the debt he is told the price has risen to five hundred gold pieces.Tags
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This is one of my favorite books from my childhood. It's a Greek folk tale about a sea captain who has eggs for lunch in a restaurant and forgets to pay. Although he returns to pay for the meal six years later, the debt to the owner of the restaurant has grown in the time that has passed. Good for talking about the concept of interest in units about money.
A sudden storm causes a sea captain to leave an inn without paying his bill and the wily innkeeper tries to profit from it
A man does not pay for his 4 eggs, 6 years later the inn keeper who fried the eggs tried to trick him into buying the chickens he could have had from those 4 eggs. A lawyer comes in and outsmarts the inn keeper.
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Aliki was born Aliki was born on September 3, 1929 in Wildwood Crest, New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia, PA. She graduated from the Philadelphia Museum College of Art in 1951. After college, she worked in the display department at J. C. Penney Co. in New York for a year and then as a free-lance artist and art teacher in Philadelphia. In 1956 show more she spent several months traveling, painting, and sketching in Europe. In 1957, Aliki married Franz Brandenberg, also a writer, and they settled in Switzerland, where she worked as a free-lance artist. In 1960 the Brandenbergs moved to New York City. Aliki continued to write and illustrate children's books, both fiction and nonfiction. As well as illustrating her own works, she has also illustrated over fifty books for others, including those of her husband Franz, Joanna Cole and Paul Showers. Aliki and her family moved to England in 1977 where she continues to write and illustrate. She has been the recipient of many honours including the New York Academy of Sciences Children's Book Award and the Prix du Livre pour Enfants (Geneva). She received the New Jersey Institute of Technology Award for The Listening Walk in 1961 and for Bees and Beelines in 1964, the Boys Club of America Junior Book Award for Three Gold Pieces: A Greek Folk Tale in 1968, and the Children's Book Showcase for At Mary Bloom's in 1977. She also won the New York Academy of Sciences (younger) Award for Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the Indians in 1977 and the Garden State Children's Book Award (younger nonfiction) for Mummies Made In Egypt in 1982. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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