The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County
Meet one smart chicken chaser. She can catch any chicken on her grandmother’s farm except one – the elusive Miss Hen. In a hilarious battle of wits, the spirited narrator regales readers with her campaign to catch Miss Hen, but this chicken is “fast as a mosquito buzzing and quick as a fleabite.”...
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Meet one smart chicken chaser. She can catch any chicken on her grandmother’s farm except one – the elusive Miss Hen. In a hilarious battle of wits, the spirited narrator regales readers with her campaign to catch Miss Hen, but this chicken is “fast as a mosquito buzzing and quick as a fleabite.” Our chicken chaser has her mind set on winning, until she discovers that sometimes it’s just as satisfying not to catch chickens as it is to catch them. A fresh voice full of sass and inventive, bold collage illustrations full of surprises create a childlike escapade brimming with funny high jinks that leads the reader on a merry, memorable chase. The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780374312510 (0374312516)
ASIN: 374312516
Publish date: March 20th 2007
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 40
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Humor,
Academic,
School,
Cultural,
Realistic Fiction,
American,
African American,
Picture Books,
Animals,
Storytime
I grabbed this book off of the library shelf just on a whim. I didn't even read it before I checked it out, so I am so glad that I got so lucky! My niece, nephew, and I all really enjoyed this book. The story was good, and the writing was even better. It was a real pleasure for me to read out lo...