Presents a simple picture book centered around four eggs. While three of the eggs hatch their chicks, one egg remains stubbornly intact. When the shell finally cracks, the baby crocodile that emerges comes as quite a shock. But the animals remain friends as the three chicks hop aboard the crocodile and float away.

During the early 1900s, eleven-year-old Viney spends her summer working for the local midwife and learns firsthand about birth, death, and "catchin' babies."

As Sophie grows bigger and her grandfather gets smaller, they continue to love each other very much.

"Peep can't wait for Egg to hatch. They will have so much fun together! But Egg isn't quite ready ... yet"--

Grandma tells her grandchild the story of the child's birth and how they both hurried to make it there on time.

'My daddy said, On the day you were born, I wrapped you up warm and took you for a walk to see the world ... A celebration of the glories of existence, the world as seen afresh on the birth of a new baby.

When sisters Pippa, Pia, Poppy, Polly, and Peg are born, they all look alike, and they all do everything together, so when one of them starts to get ahead of the others, their parents deal with it, but the girls do not want to be the same.