Edward the Emu

Mem Fox illustrations amazing

We love this book. We were originally gifted this book from a relative that lives in Australia. Unfortunately after years of hard usage and an accident our beloved copy was damaged. Luckily we found a good deal for a replacement online. The story is sweet, but my favorite are the amazing colored pencil illustrations. My kids are 3,5,8 and I run a home daycare, so I basically read this book often to kids 6 weeks to 8years old and they all enjoy it. We ❤️ Edward!

Adorable story to pair with Edwina the Emu! Great illustrations!

Great for reading to our school's 1st grade class. The pictures make it interesting for the kids.

My daughter loves Edward the Emu so we had to add this to her library! Colorful illustrations.

This is one of my all-time favourite kids’ books. In fact, I have my own copy, and I always buy it for any children I’m getting gifts for. I think it’s great fun for kids age 2 through maybe even 8 or 9, with its rhyming story, “moral” that being yourself is usually best, and absolutely wonderful illustrations.

I discovered this book when my kids were young, and it was one of my favorite stories to read to them, and it was one of theirs too. They often got to take turns picking out a book to read before bedtime and this one made it to my lap many many times. Well, over the years, our copy grew tired and ragged and worn, as it traveled from vehicle to vehicle, from house to house, and from beds to toy boxes, to backpacks to bookshelves, somewhere along the way Edward the Emu must have snagged it back home to his zoo. Alas, I could not find it anywhere. All my kids are grown now, and one day as I was searching for something on Amazon, imagine my surprise when I saw none other than Edward the Emu in the search results! I hadn’t been searching specifically for Edward, but I couldn’t resist coming to say hello to an old friend either. Needless to say, I told myself (or else Edward did) that I needed another copy just to have around for nostalgia’s sake. After all, he told me… one day there may be more little ears to hear all about Edward. And so I did… after all, one can hardly resist Edward the Emu.

Great read for elementary kids. Santa Barbara Zoo now has Australia section and this is a good follow up book. Also bought a nonfiction book.

Love this book, I buy it for all kids I know, love how it rhymes and has the best illustrations

I bought this as part of our study unit about Australia. Kids wanted to learn about Australian animals. But it was not very useful at all, because the choice of animals depicted is random, from any continent and habitat (the story happens at the zoo), there was no real insight into Australia. No educational angle in this book. It would be much more useful a book such as “Have you seen my egg” in which the emu interacts with local endemic animals, it just adds an extra learning element that I personally find valuable. Returned.

This book is hilarious and the drawings are perfect! I love the way the Emu expresses each emotion in its face! Great!

Amazing book for kids

Very popular with kids. Nice story about being happy with being yourself.