Mummy Laid an Egg!

Babette Cole's contribution to sex education resources will be welcomed by those who are daunted by the solemnity sometimes surrounding the subject. The book approaches the issue of embarrassment head on, featuring two parents who are either hilariously ignorant of the facts of life or too shame-faced to share them with their children. In response to tales of babies bursting out of eggs or emerging from tubes, flowers and gingerbread griddles, the children present a vividly illustrated lecture in which the truth is told in the most brazen way imaginable. Educational, entertaining and vigorously conveyed in just 30 pages and a couple of hundred words. Invaluable stuff, but beware of interpreting too literally the diagrams showing 'some ways mummies and daddies fit together'.