The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South is a 1989 children's picture book by Robert D. San Souci and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.

It is an adaption of a Creole folktale about a young girl who is mistreated by her mother and older sister, meets an old woman in the woods, and receives some eggs that contains treasures.

Blanche only takes the plain eggs, as she was told, and when she tosses them over her shoulder, to her surprise, gems, money, and dresses come out of them, along with a horse and carriage which she rides the rest of the way home.

After going to bed hungry because she did not believe in the rice or beef bone trick and getting sour milk from the two-headed cow because she laughed at it, a frustrated Rose picks up the old woman's head after she takes it off and demands the same things Blanche got.

Instead, since she disobeyed the old woman again, she receives the exact opposite and is chased home by a bunch of attacking snakes, hornets, frogs, toads, and a wolf.

By the time they returned home angry, sore, stung, and covered with mud, Rose and her mother found that Blanche had left for the city to live like a grand lady.

Common Sense Media in its review of The Talking Eggs, wrote "Robert D. San Souci captures the reader's attention with simple language that brings the country setting to life: "They lived on a farm so poor, it looked like the tail end of bad luck."

"[1] Kirkus Reviews, wrote "A lively retelling of a rather hard-hearted Creole version of a widely collected folktale.

"[2] and the School Library Journal called it "a unique contribution to the American folktale repertoire"[3] The Talking Eggs has also been reviewed by Publishers Weekly,[4] and Booklist.