GOOD NEWS
by Barbara Brenner & illustrated by Kate Duke
On Level 1 of the useful ``Bank Street Ready-to-Read'' series, a story pivoting on the exaggeration of news as it's passed along. Canada Goose is sitting on four eggs; as word travels around the pond, they become eight ``monster'' eggs. Both repetitions and minor variations serve the humor as well as the needs of the beginning reader. The illustrations are lively and appropriately comic; they also help define less familiar species like wood duck and muskrat. (Easy reader. 4-8)