children's book -J.Brzechwa 'Jajko'

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Jajko {eng. The Egg}
an illustration for a children's book by Jan Brzechwa and his poems for children, a school project for book/magazine making.

Almost every child in Poland grew up on his poetry, by standard it's part of school curriculum,
I personally owned a tiny children's book of his poems, then I found that most of J.B's poetry is actually rather dark and emotional and bit gory,
but he wrote a lot for kids too - he got most popular with his wacky rhymes for kids,
his children's poems are rather odd too if not simply weird,
I guess censorship didn't think his poems about animals doing strange things and some dying and having the worst of luck was not bad for children,
but it weird-ed me out when I looked at them form a point of view of a grown up today,


The poem "Jajko" - "The Egg" is about an Egg arguing and disobeying with the Chicken, the story goes like so:
There was an Egg, that tot it was smarter than the Chicken, and the hen gets annoyed and begs it to be "stupider"-literally that is what it says, the Egg toses around and the Hen tells it if it keep at it it will get un-fresh, to that it replies that is's a duck's egg, the hen tried politely "come I'll hatch you", and to that the Egg escapes to the field saying it will "become a cabbage", the Hen warns it not to walk out to the street or it will become scrambled, while the Egg responds that "there are no frying pans on the street", then the Hen warns it "careful it's boiling water", and the poem ends with the Egg "jumping in the water with a smirk and it boils hard".

now how is a story like that supposed to be for children?

Still... a Big recommend, go search for Jan Brzechwa for some of the weirdest rhyming stories ever!