We're NOT chicken

Love chickens?  Picture books about chickens are out there!  Today I will talk about two of my favorites, The Plot Chickens by Mary Jane Auch and Herm Auch.

Henrietta is a chicken who loves to read, and wisely uses the public library.  Henrietta checks out a Writing Rules book .  She finds a typewriter, pecks at the keyboard making several attempts to write a novel, and begins to practice the rules for great book writing: Some examples,

Rule # 2 Hatch a plot. 

Rule #4 Develop your plot by asking ‘What if?”

Rule # 7 Make your story come alive by using all 5 senses.

This book is funny, has writing rules for story craft and great illustrations done in oil and digital tech with lots of detail and visual jokes.  (Tidbit; the Auch’s live in upstate New York and do keep chickens !)

AND Chicken Big by Keith Graves.

A very large chicken is born in a tiny coop. His companions can’t figure out what this BIG chicken is, an elephant?,  a squirrel?, a umbrella?  Well no, Big Chicken is simply larger than normal, and the flock does find an identity for him.

Humongous chuckles in store, simple graphic line illustrations that engage and a lesson for the fox.

So why am I writing about chickens? Because of my young friend Ava, who knows a lot about chickens, she used to raise them and my little cousin Tom, who asked.

Here are some more chicken titles you and your family might enjoy.

                                                                         

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