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  • A Chicken Followed Me Home!: Questions and Answers about a Familiar Fowl by Robin Page
  • Jeannette Hulick
Page, Robin A Chicken Followed Me Home!: Questions and Answers about a Familiar Fowl; written and illus. by Robin Page. Beach Lane/Simon, 2015 34p
Trade ed. ISBN 978-1-4814-1028-1 $17.99
E-book ed. ISBN 978-1-4814-1029-8 $12.99 R 5-9 yrs

Sure, kids may know what to do with a stray puppy or kitten, but what if a chicken follows them home? Page treats this appealing fictional problem, helpfully giving audiences answers to some basic questions (“What kind of chicken is it?”), providing information on chickens and their care, highlighting a few of the many breeds, and very briefly covering such topics as food, safety and shelter, gender identification, egg laying, and chick raising. Further information on chicken history, physical traits, and a chick’s development inside the egg, as well as a short list of resources and websites, are appended. The information given here isn’t detailed enough to set a kid up as a chicken farmer, but it’s a concise and inviting introduction to chickens, and the “chicken followed me home” premise is an amusing angle. The layout and digital illustrations (rendered in Photoshop) are simple, with rich, marbleizedlooking reds and blacks stunningly creating the plumage of the tagalong chicken (a Rhode Island Red hen). Large figures and clean compositions with plenty of white space make this great for group sharing, while the brief text, clear fonts, and simple vocabulary will put this within readalone range for older primary-graders as well. Families considering embarking on the backyard poultry movement or classrooms raising chicks would want to supplement this with more detailed resources, but as a very first introduction to chickens and their care it would be hard to beat this. In addition, its brevity, striking artwork, and question/answer format will make it a winner with the storytime crowd.

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