The Talking Eggs (Folk Literature)

Author: Robert San Souci


In a small town in Louisiana, there lived 2 sisters named Rose and Blanche and their mother.  Blanche was a kind, intelligent girl while Rose was greedy, mean, and very unkind to Rose.  The mother was also unkind to Blanche but treated Rose like she was the best daughter in the world! She ordered Blanche to do all kind of chores while Rose did nothing! All of that changed when Blanche befriended this old witch in the woods. The old witch granted her talking eggs and told her which ones to listen to.  If Blanche follows the directions of the witch, she will have many riches! If not, she will face a horrible fate.


Since this book is very colorful, set in Louisiana, and has Creole dialect throughout the story, this would be a good time to discuss genre, setting, plot, and theme.  This story is fairly short so I would read the story to the students and let them fill in their own charts individually as we went along.