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Eggsistential Thoughts by Gudetama the Lazy Egg
Meh . . .
From Sanrio, who brought you Hello Kitty, comes Gudetama, the lazy egg.
Not all Sanrio characters are cheery! In Japanese, when you're lazy, you are referred to as gude gude. And that's where our new friend gets its name. Gudetama (tama from "tamago," egg in Japanese) is the lazy egg. Gudetama likes soy sauce and being left alone. Sometimes, Gudetama wonders if we are born only to suffer. And here, in Eggsistential Thoughts, are Gudetama's musings on life.
From Sanrio, who brought you Hello Kitty, comes Gudetama, the lazy egg.
Not all Sanrio characters are cheery! In Japanese, when you're lazy, you are referred to as gude gude. And that's where our new friend gets its name. Gudetama (tama from "tamago," egg in Japanese) is the lazy egg. Gudetama likes soy sauce and being left alone. Sometimes, Gudetama wonders if we are born only to suffer. And here, in Eggsistential Thoughts, are Gudetama's musings on life.
48 pages, Hardcover
First published October 17, 2017
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About the author
Francesco Sedita
27 books41 followersFrancesco Sedita was born on March 18 on Mott Street in the Little Italy section of New York, New York, to two native New Yorkers.
Sedita studied writing at the Gallatin School of New York University. "It's this incredible multi-disciplinary program that allowed me to study many aspects of writing, including screenwriting, fiction, and theatrical writing," he says. While at Gallatin, he was a Writing Fellow for Saturday Night Live. After graduating, he wrote and directed a show that ran Off-Off Broadway for 5 years. He is now the Creative Director at major children's book publisher. Miss Popularity is his first book.
Francesco has been writing since the second grade. "I wrote and illustrated a story about a dog named Blackie. My next-door neighbor read it, and when she told me how much she liked it, I realized right then that I wanted to be a writer. I love to tell people stories," he says. When he was in college, he focused on writing comedy, and even did stand-up for a time. In graduate school, he focused on writing literary fiction. "Miss Popularity seemed like a strange direction for me at first, but it was an editorial director at Scholastic who made me realize it was the book I was born to write!" says Francesco. "We were discussing the idea of a character who comes to a musty old school and totally transforms it with her personality and fashion sense, and we both had a really good laugh. And then a day or two later, I was walking down the street and the entire story came to me in a flash-I emailed my editor right away, and Cassie Knight was born!"
Francesco Sedita lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Sedita studied writing at the Gallatin School of New York University. "It's this incredible multi-disciplinary program that allowed me to study many aspects of writing, including screenwriting, fiction, and theatrical writing," he says. While at Gallatin, he was a Writing Fellow for Saturday Night Live. After graduating, he wrote and directed a show that ran Off-Off Broadway for 5 years. He is now the Creative Director at major children's book publisher. Miss Popularity is his first book.
Francesco has been writing since the second grade. "I wrote and illustrated a story about a dog named Blackie. My next-door neighbor read it, and when she told me how much she liked it, I realized right then that I wanted to be a writer. I love to tell people stories," he says. When he was in college, he focused on writing comedy, and even did stand-up for a time. In graduate school, he focused on writing literary fiction. "Miss Popularity seemed like a strange direction for me at first, but it was an editorial director at Scholastic who made me realize it was the book I was born to write!" says Francesco. "We were discussing the idea of a character who comes to a musty old school and totally transforms it with her personality and fashion sense, and we both had a really good laugh. And then a day or two later, I was walking down the street and the entire story came to me in a flash-I emailed my editor right away, and Cassie Knight was born!"
Francesco Sedita lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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April 26, 2018
About: Eggsistential Thoughts by Gudetama the Lazy Egg is a children’s picture book written and illustrated by Francesco Sedita and Max Bisantz. It was published on 10/7/17 by Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House, hardcover, 48 pages. The genres are children’s book, picture book, and fiction.
My Experience: I started reading Eggsistential Thoughts by Gudetama the Lazy Egg for my 6 years old son as a bedtime story on 4/19/18 and we finished it that same night. This book is all about being lazy and it’s hilarious. An egg being lazy, hard to imagine right? haha.. My son enjoys this book a lot! He likes most is when this lazy egg receives a trophy for being lazy! haha.. He also likes the illustrations of the egg’s butt being hit with a chopstick. I like how the egg use a slice of bacon as a blanket and ask for five more minutes, assuming he’s being called to get up.
In this book, readers will follow Gudetama, the lazy egg as it lays around feeling too lazy to get up or do anything. It hides in its egg shell like wearing a hat and it doesn’t want to be bothered. It rolls over to lay face up and later face down feeling meh.. and when it’s being used on a slice of bread, it slide half way out of the bread expressing the feeling of sluggish. This book shows the egg in different forms of being lazy.
I am familiar with Sanrio and Hello Kitty, but this is my first time being introduced to Gudetama the lazy egg. I feel like him almost every mornings haha.. I like the many egg references in this book, even as a brand name to a laptop in place of Apple. I like how the egg do different activities: out sailing using his shell, become someone’s meal, listening to music, etc. This book is a quick read for kids and egg humor is definitely a plus. I highly recommend everyone to read this book!
Pro: humor, illustration, egg references, Sanrio character,
Con: none
I rate it 5 stars!
***Disclaimer: Many thanks to Penguin Young Readers for the opportunity to read and review. Please be assured that my opinions are honest.
xoxo,
Jasmine at www.howusefulitis.wordpress.com for more details
My Experience: I started reading Eggsistential Thoughts by Gudetama the Lazy Egg for my 6 years old son as a bedtime story on 4/19/18 and we finished it that same night. This book is all about being lazy and it’s hilarious. An egg being lazy, hard to imagine right? haha.. My son enjoys this book a lot! He likes most is when this lazy egg receives a trophy for being lazy! haha.. He also likes the illustrations of the egg’s butt being hit with a chopstick. I like how the egg use a slice of bacon as a blanket and ask for five more minutes, assuming he’s being called to get up.
In this book, readers will follow Gudetama, the lazy egg as it lays around feeling too lazy to get up or do anything. It hides in its egg shell like wearing a hat and it doesn’t want to be bothered. It rolls over to lay face up and later face down feeling meh.. and when it’s being used on a slice of bread, it slide half way out of the bread expressing the feeling of sluggish. This book shows the egg in different forms of being lazy.
I am familiar with Sanrio and Hello Kitty, but this is my first time being introduced to Gudetama the lazy egg. I feel like him almost every mornings haha.. I like the many egg references in this book, even as a brand name to a laptop in place of Apple. I like how the egg do different activities: out sailing using his shell, become someone’s meal, listening to music, etc. This book is a quick read for kids and egg humor is definitely a plus. I highly recommend everyone to read this book!
Pro: humor, illustration, egg references, Sanrio character,
Con: none
I rate it 5 stars!
***Disclaimer: Many thanks to Penguin Young Readers for the opportunity to read and review. Please be assured that my opinions are honest.
xoxo,
Jasmine at www.howusefulitis.wordpress.com for more details
April 16, 2018
This book is extremely funny.
Heya Guys! - Welcome to the Nether! Today I am going to be doing something a little bit different today.
This is a tabletop book called eggsistencial thoughts it is by Gudetama the lazy egg. I was given these by Penguin Random House to review, and there’s really nothing to review about this book but I’m going to try. There’s not very many words but they’re extremely funny. I was sent to her these books one of them is this particular book that I’m putting this review on and another one it’s called gudetama she guide to life. I think they were both very funny in their own unique ways.
The one that we are going to focus on right now is the Thoughts. Here there is very colorful pictures of the character and some little phrases here and there. In Japanese gude gude means lazy, or the phrase so lazy. Tama I believe means egg, So when you put those two words together Means is lazy egg. Here we can relate to gudetama In various ways of wanting to hide from life’s issues and overall wide to take a nap twice.
I’m going to go about the pictures I think that they’re very colorful and playful. This book made me crack up one or two many times about how silly I can be. I think my favorite thing about this book is the back of the second book that I have where it says I was born to be soft and shows a picture of the characters butt.
I think that these are really good stocking stuffer’s if you want to give this a little children because gudetama is a really cute character. They’re easy to read and very funny.
Overall give these both of 4.5 star rating there’s really nothing bad to say about them. There really good books just to have on your table just a crack a joke every once in a while about how lazy this Egg is.
BYE~
Heya Guys! - Welcome to the Nether! Today I am going to be doing something a little bit different today.
This is a tabletop book called eggsistencial thoughts it is by Gudetama the lazy egg. I was given these by Penguin Random House to review, and there’s really nothing to review about this book but I’m going to try. There’s not very many words but they’re extremely funny. I was sent to her these books one of them is this particular book that I’m putting this review on and another one it’s called gudetama she guide to life. I think they were both very funny in their own unique ways.
The one that we are going to focus on right now is the Thoughts. Here there is very colorful pictures of the character and some little phrases here and there. In Japanese gude gude means lazy, or the phrase so lazy. Tama I believe means egg, So when you put those two words together Means is lazy egg. Here we can relate to gudetama In various ways of wanting to hide from life’s issues and overall wide to take a nap twice.
I’m going to go about the pictures I think that they’re very colorful and playful. This book made me crack up one or two many times about how silly I can be. I think my favorite thing about this book is the back of the second book that I have where it says I was born to be soft and shows a picture of the characters butt.
I think that these are really good stocking stuffer’s if you want to give this a little children because gudetama is a really cute character. They’re easy to read and very funny.
Overall give these both of 4.5 star rating there’s really nothing bad to say about them. There really good books just to have on your table just a crack a joke every once in a while about how lazy this Egg is.
BYE~
May 6, 2018
This book’s style and layout is more simple, in that each 2 page spread contains an image, and short lines of text. I like the simplicity of it, because even though there is less text in this book, the authors still managed to capture the Gudetama style sense of humour … a big part of which is Gudetama’s very short (and lazy) one liners! The authors who brought us Eggsistential Thoughts definitely get Gudetama and what he’s all about, and that makes me happy! I also like that this book is a hardcover, and that you can choose to either read the whole book in one go, or enjoy one 2 page spread per day! I definitely recommend this book to old and new fans of this lazy and lovable egg!
April 26, 2018
Actually, when you think about it, it is kind of sad that Gudetama is eventually going to be eaten. It's a fried egg after all. Haha, I'm fine.
*Huge thanks to the publisher for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts are my own! This review and more can be found in my book blog.
*Huge thanks to the publisher for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts are my own! This review and more can be found in my book blog.
November 10, 2023
Great,
February 4, 2018
I relate to Gudetama on so many levels.
December 20, 2018
Ha ha so cute.
June 16, 2019
I don't know who the audience is for this. I. don't. know.
Also veers more towards nihlism than existentialism :D
Also veers more towards nihlism than existentialism :D
September 9, 2022
The cutest lazy egg there ever was.
April 19, 2018
I love Sanrio characters, starting with the Queen herself Hello Kitty and continuing on to this book's focus, Gudetama the Lazy Egg. I relate to some of the things he says, particularly with his "why bother" attitude, and that's what encouraged me to ask to review this book.
The illustrations are, contrary to Gudetama's nature, quite bright and lively. His sunny appearance is a stark contrast to his laissez-faire attitude. As for actual content, there's not a lot to really review. Each picture is accompanied by a few words that aren't strictly cohesive in a greater "storyline" manner. My first thought was that this was more like a small volume of memes that a story or even a short piece that nails existentialism.
A cute addition to the Sanrio library, Gudetama's personality is certainly all over this book and fans of him will be happy with what they get.
I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
The illustrations are, contrary to Gudetama's nature, quite bright and lively. His sunny appearance is a stark contrast to his laissez-faire attitude. As for actual content, there's not a lot to really review. Each picture is accompanied by a few words that aren't strictly cohesive in a greater "storyline" manner. My first thought was that this was more like a small volume of memes that a story or even a short piece that nails existentialism.
A cute addition to the Sanrio library, Gudetama's personality is certainly all over this book and fans of him will be happy with what they get.
I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
April 23, 2018
I would like to thank Penguin Workshop for providing me with a free copy in exchange for an honest review!
First, I loved the artwork in this book. I thought it was cute and loveable. Secondly, I related so hard with this lazy egg on almost every page. With this in mind, I didn't quite understand the big hype surrounding it. I do think it was a very short and funny picture book, but maybe not worth that much hype in my opinion. I do think this character will be loved by many children, even myself as a young adult. But nostalgically speaking, I'm not sure if it will hold a place in everyone's hearts throughout their life. It almost felt rushed and even slightly mature. For example the notion of taking a "selfie", might not be understood and even related by many young children that don't have that technology at their age.
Once again with all this in mind, this was a quick, fun, and enjoyable book that I have given three stars to!
First, I loved the artwork in this book. I thought it was cute and loveable. Secondly, I related so hard with this lazy egg on almost every page. With this in mind, I didn't quite understand the big hype surrounding it. I do think it was a very short and funny picture book, but maybe not worth that much hype in my opinion. I do think this character will be loved by many children, even myself as a young adult. But nostalgically speaking, I'm not sure if it will hold a place in everyone's hearts throughout their life. It almost felt rushed and even slightly mature. For example the notion of taking a "selfie", might not be understood and even related by many young children that don't have that technology at their age.
Once again with all this in mind, this was a quick, fun, and enjoyable book that I have given three stars to!
July 18, 2019
I received a copy via the Publisher in exchange for an honest review
I ended up getting this book along with Gudetama's Guide to Life so I had no idea what to expect. I wanted to learn more about this egg I would see often enough at conventions. While GtoL was for an older audience (kids who could read in sentences and older), Eggsistential Thoughts seems like it's geared more for children learning how to read even though the content is more relatable to older people (ie. when Gudetama checks their follower count on social media), which was an interesting contrast. It makes the audience ambiguous.
While I did find this book a bit funnier than GtoLife, it was just missing something. I guess I just don't find Gudetama an interesting character
I ended up getting this book along with Gudetama's Guide to Life so I had no idea what to expect. I wanted to learn more about this egg I would see often enough at conventions. While GtoL was for an older audience (kids who could read in sentences and older), Eggsistential Thoughts seems like it's geared more for children learning how to read even though the content is more relatable to older people (ie. when Gudetama checks their follower count on social media), which was an interesting contrast. It makes the audience ambiguous.
While I did find this book a bit funnier than GtoLife, it was just missing something. I guess I just don't find Gudetama an interesting character
April 20, 2018
"Seriously, I can't."
I finally got my hands on the Eggsistential Thoughts of the cute egg I've been seeing everywhere and while the illustrations are enjoyable I have to say I don't get the hype.
Don't get me wrong- Gudetama is adorable. I'm not entirely sure why the egg has a butt but overall it's cute. But I was expecting real thoughts (more like Punching Pandas) than things like "Meh" and "I'm tired". I suppose the egg is easy to relate to but for a handful of pictures of an egg wanting to lay around and pages that don't have more than a few words I wasn't wowed.
It's a fun concept as comics and keychains and pillows but didn't feel like it made a great book.
I finally got my hands on the Eggsistential Thoughts of the cute egg I've been seeing everywhere and while the illustrations are enjoyable I have to say I don't get the hype.
Don't get me wrong- Gudetama is adorable. I'm not entirely sure why the egg has a butt but overall it's cute. But I was expecting real thoughts (more like Punching Pandas) than things like "Meh" and "I'm tired". I suppose the egg is easy to relate to but for a handful of pictures of an egg wanting to lay around and pages that don't have more than a few words I wasn't wowed.
It's a fun concept as comics and keychains and pillows but didn't feel like it made a great book.
April 16, 2018
Gudetama, the lazy egg is another one of Sanrio's beloved characters. Unlike the other cheery characters, Gudetama is known for their meh attitude and their love of soy sauce. They prefer being alone and napping. Gudetama sometimes wonders if we are only born to suffer and this book is Gudetama's musing on life.
The book was beautifully illustrated with a few words on each page. However, because the book is very sparse I felt like this book is a one-time thing or a coffee book. If you are a fan of Gudetama, this book will not disappoint.
The book was beautifully illustrated with a few words on each page. However, because the book is very sparse I felt like this book is a one-time thing or a coffee book. If you are a fan of Gudetama, this book will not disappoint.
September 28, 2019
Gudetama is my favorite recent Sanrio character, and I absolutely loved this little book. It's so cute. It's simple and well-illustrated. The little text and art highlighted Gudetama's essence perfectly. I enjoyed it.
October 25, 2017
hysterically accurate description of Sophia ;)
December 12, 2017
this is college life in a nutshell -or should I say eggshell?
December 26, 2017
Would have been better without the thoughts, alas.
February 6, 2018
It was funny, strange, adorable...pretty much what I expected. It's not for everyone, and it's hard to place where this would belong on a shelf, but a funny coffee book table possibly.
February 16, 2018
Gudetama is my spirit... animal?
February 21, 2018
The wisdom on laziness by Gudetama is peerless :P
April 30, 2018
3/5 stars
Liked it but not as much as I liked Gudetama's Guide to Life. Seriously, pick that one up!
Liked it but not as much as I liked Gudetama's Guide to Life. Seriously, pick that one up!
June 26, 2018
there's a lot here to relate to
July 7, 2018
Absolutely hilarious. If you fan over gudetama this is a great collector book. Oh, my daughter loved it too;)
July 16, 2018
Amusing little lazy egg.
August 4, 2018
Awesome!
December 18, 2018
CUTE and FUNNY!
June 15, 2019
Funny. Cute. Quick read.
June 28, 2021
Review:
This is technically a graphic novel... I think. Either way, I love Gudetama so much. It makes me happy. It's silly.
I give it 4-stars because I wish there was just a little bit more to it.
This is technically a graphic novel... I think. Either way, I love Gudetama so much. It makes me happy. It's silly.
I give it 4-stars because I wish there was just a little bit more to it.
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