![]() ![]() Surges, formerly at Longfellow Middle School, Wauwatosa, WI, "A chicken followed me home. Expect newly hatched domestic fowl enthusiasts to crow over this one. VERDICT A charming addition to animal collections. A concluding spread of "More Chicken Questions" gives further detail and a list of more resources. Readers will find tons of fun and well-presented material one page displays 260 eggs, the average number a hen lays in a year. Bright, solid color backgrounds alternate with white ones. Digitally produced, the images are well integrated with the text and use highly textured shapes. ![]() ![]() Details are labeled or given small call-out illustrations. A question begins each topic ("Will my chicken lay eggs?") with keywords highlighted with larger, bolder type. The book starts with an unnamed narrator who's been followed home by a fowl, asking, "What do I do now?" After the hen eventually lays and hatches eggs and the chicks mature into adult hens, the child hopes that the creatures will "follow someone else home." Along the way, readers are introduced to information on anatomy, care, and life cycle. ![]() With a touch of humor, this well-designed title presents everything you always wanted to know about chickens-but didn't know to ask. ![]()
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