"The reason for it was this: I wanted this painting to tell a story about the life of Raphael. Fitzgerald says she had to invent this particular painting: Theo begins to suspect that the painting is a work by Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. And the one that is entirely fictional is the one that she discovers – that Theo discovers under the egg. Laura Marx Fitzgerald: So Matthew, every painting in the book is real, except one.
Matthew DeMers: Are all the paintings that are in the book, are they all real? Which brought Theo to another conclusion: the painting looked stolen. Jack had worked a day job as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Theo soon finds out there is something hidden under Jack’s painting of an egg: a much older painting. And that’s how the character of Theo came about. And I started thinking, ‘What would it look like if Laura Ingalls Wilder lived in the center of New York City, in the Village. And the way a lot of people where I was living, in Brooklyn, were going back to these sort-of pioneer methods and they were pickling things and canning things and raising chickens in their backyard. It was in 2009 and it was right after the markets had crashed and I was thinking a lot about the way that people in America were kind of living in a mini-depression, a great depression. Laura Marx Fitzgerald: One of the central parts of the story came from when I was re-reading the Little House on the Prairie series. Trent Paquette: How did you get the story idea of Under the Egg? And she’s not even sure what egg he means.įifth grader Trent Paquette wanted to ask this question of the book’s author: With his dying words, Jack told her to “look under the egg.” That instruction could be the key to her survival, or it could mean something else entirely. Her grandfather has died, and now it’s up to her to feed the chickens, tend the garden, make her own clothes and make sure they can survive on the dwindling jar of money hidden in her grandfather Jack’s studio.
Theo is the girl at the center of the story. Librarian Nancy Custer Carroll has a lesson for them on characters in Laura Marx Fitzgerald's book Under the Egg. They're the big kids at Beeman Elementary, and library time isn't just about read-alouds and checking out books anymore. The fifth and sixth graders file down the stairs and into the school library, like they've done hundreds of times before.
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