Mummy Laid An Egg
Mummy Laid an Egg: or, Where do Babies Come From? is a children's book by English author Babette Cole. It was published in 1994 and won the British Illustrated Children's Book of the Year in that year.
It has also been published as Mommy Laid an Egg in the United States. Under that title it was listed as number 82 in the American Library Association's "100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000".
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