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The Chicken Who Couldn't

Jan Thomas - Beach Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

After falling out of Farmer's truck, Chicken must find his own way home in this goofy, laugh-out-loud story about overcoming obstacles and believing in yourself.It has not been a good day for Chicken. He went to the fair with Farmer, but didn't win even one ribbon. And on the way home,...
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Catch That Chicken!

Atinuke - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

The team behind Baby Goes to Market and B Is for Baby visit a Nigerian village for a humorous ode to childhood ingenuity.Lami is the best chicken catcher in the whole village. Her sister may be speedy at spelling, her friend fast at braiding hair, and her brother brave with bulls, but when...
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Chicken Talk

PATRICIA MACLACHLAN - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover

The chickens on the farm have a message for their farm owners! They're tired of arugula salad, how about putting a fan in their hot coop, and HEY - watch out for that snake in your tent.As the children walk around their beloved farm, they discover more and more chicken talk scratched into...
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Interrupting Chicken

David Ezra Stein - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

Its time for the little red chickens bedtime story - and a reminder from Papa to try not to interrupt. But the chicken cant help herself! Whether the tale is Hansel and Grettel or Little Red Riding Hood or even Chicken Little, she jumps into the story to save its hapless characters from...
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Chicken Little and the Big Bad Wolf

Sam Wedelich - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Chicken Little is NOT afraid of anything, not even a wolf. No matter how big or bad he is.In fact, she's never even seen a wolf.So when a real wolf shows up and ruffles her feathers, what's a fretful fowl to do: Join the frenzied flock and fly the coop? Or find out if this newcomer...
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Chicken Butt

Erica S Perl - Abrams Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

You know what?What?Chicken butt! The classic schoolyard joke has been recast as an irreverent picture book, with call-and-response parts for parent and child. The word repetition in Erica S. Perl's text, and wonderfully comic illustrations by beloved artist Henry Cole,...
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Handa's Hen

Eileen Browne - Candlewick Press
Format: Book

Every morning, Handa, a young girl from the Luo tribe, feeds breakfast to Mondi, her grandma's black hen. This morning, however, Mondi is nowhere to be seen. So Handa and her friend Akeyo set off on a hunt, coming upon two fluttery butterflies, three stripy mice, four little lizards, five...
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Cinders: A Chicken Cinderella

Jan Brett - Penguin Group
Format: Print book

Jan Brett sets her Cinderella story in a snowy Russian winter where one magical night, Cinders, the most picked upon hen in the flock, becomes the most loved by Prince Cockerel when she arrives at his ball looking so beautiful that even her bossy sisters don't recognize her. Jan travelled...
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Henny Penny

Paul Galdone - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book

"A favorite nursery tale delightfully illustrated in strong line and color in Galdone's familiar and likable style. " --"BOOKLIST "Another popular retelling by Paul Galdone joins the Folk Tale Classics series Convinced the sky is falling, Henny Penny and a band of gullible...
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Peggy: A Brave Chicken on a Big Adventure

Anna Walker - Clarion Books
Format: Book

Peggy the hen is contented with her quiet existence and daily routine. When a powerful gust of wind sweeps her up and deposits her in the midst of a busy city, she explores her new surroundings, makes new friends, and cleverly figures out how to get home - with a newly kindled appetite...
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Louise, The Adventures of a Chicken

Kate DiCamillo - Joanna Cotler Books
Format: Book

She longed for adventure. So she left her home and ventured out into the wide world.The pleasures and perils she met proved plentiful: marauding pirates on the majestic seas, a ferocious lion under the bright lights of the big top, a mysterious stranger in an exotic and bustling bazaar.Yet...
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The Little Red Hen

Paul Galdone - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Book

Little Red Hen is a time-tested cautionary tale about how we reap what we sow. When the hen asks a cat, dog, and mouse for help planting some wheat, she gets no takers: "'Not I!' said the cat. 'Not I!' said the dog. 'Not I!' said the mouse." They won't water, cut,...
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Chick 'n' Pug

Jennifer Sattler - Bloomsbury Children's Books
Format: Book

It's a bird . . . It's a pug . . . It's: Chick 'n' Pug!Chick lives for adventures. Pug lives for, well, sleep. In Chick's eyes, however, Pug can do no wrong. In fact, he is WONDERPUG! But with danger around every corner and a hero who's a little low on energy, it may be up to Chick to save...
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Rosie's Walk

Pat Hutchins - Aladdin
Format: Paperback

Rosie the hen leaves the chicken coop and sets out for a little walk. Right behind her is the fox, slyly trying to catch up with her. Rosie's walk is quiet, uneventful and eventually leads her back to the coop, blissfully unaware of the fox's travails as he tries -- unsuccessfully -- to navigate...
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Hurry! Hurry!

Eve Bunting - Harcourt
Format: Book

Rooster is spreading the word: Hurry! Hurry! All the animals rush to the barn--and arrive just in time to greet the tiniest member of the farm family, hatching out of his egg. Eve Bunting's simple energetic text and Jeff Mack's colorful art come together in a joyful book that's perfect...
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Chicky Chicky Chook Chook

Cathy MacLennan - Boxer Books Ltd.
Format: Book

What a great read-aloud, sing-aloud, shout-aloud board book this is, with its fun-to-imitate animal sounds and rhythmic rhyme. Bright yellow chicks, golden bees, and striped kitty cats play in the warm sunshine, clucking and buzzing and skitty-scatting. Then they rest, snoozy-woozy. But what...
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Chicken Little

Steven Kellogg - Listening Library
Format: Paperback

"The sky is failing! The sky is failing!" Chicken Little and her feathered friends are all aflutter when she gets a mysterious bump on the head. Steven Kellogg's hilarious retelling and irresistible illustrations bring fresh delight to this timeless classic of chain reaction panic.
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A Chick Called Saturday

Joyce Dunbar - Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

A curious chick discovers one thing he can do very well.
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Chicken Dance

Tammi Sauer - Sterling
Format: Print book

Meet Marge and Lola, chickens on a mission: to win tickets for the Elvis Poultry Show! But their toughest competition - a pack of menacing ducks - sneers that "all a chicken can do is bawk, flap, and shake." Can our two feisty chicks show those quackers how to rock 'n' roll the barnyard?...
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Hungry Hen

Richard Waring - HarperCollinsPublishers
Format: Book

There once was a very hungry little hen, and she ate and ate, and grew and grew, and the more she ate, the more she grew.Up on the hill lives a cunning fox. He watches the hen every day and thinks, "If I wait just one more day, the hen will be even bigger."Then one day he can't...
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The Hen Who Wouldn't Give Up

Jill Tomlinson - Egmont
Format: Paperback

The inspiring story of a hen with as much pluck as she has cluckHilda is a small, speckled hen, and when Hilda makes up her mind, nothing can stop her. Hilda's auntie has just had a family of chicks, and she's determined to visit them. But how is Hilda going to travel the five miles to her auntie's...
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Henry & the Crazed Chicken Pirates

Carolyn Crimi - Candlewick
Format: Paperback

"The illustrations give a goofy elasticity to the characters. . . . Youngsters will cheer for humble Henry, who becomes a hero because he is so well prepared." - School Library JournalBarnacle Black Ear and his band of Buccaneer Bunnies are back! The floppy-eared scallywags are busy...
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Minerva Louise

Janet Morgan Stoeke - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback

A cheerful reintroduction to the friendly chicken, Minerva Louise! Minerva Louise loves the farmhouse with the red curtains, and one day she decides to explore it from the inside. Children will laugh at her silly antics and love pointing out her mistakes. Stoeke's bright, streamlined art and offbeat...
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Chicken Big

Keith Graves - Chronicle Books
Format: Print book

On a teeny little farm, in an itty-bitty coop, a very small hen laid a big, giant egg. And out of this egg came one big, humongous . . . something. "It's big!" clucked the little rooster. "It's enormous!" clucked the small chicken. "It's anelephant!" peeped...
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Henny

Elizabeth Rose Stanton - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Henny is a chick who's just a little different from everyone else in the barn - and who learns to embrace her special gift in this whimsical and charming picture book debut from Elizabeth Rose Stanton.Henny doesn't look like any other chicken she knows. Instead of wings, she has arms! Sometimes...
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Pirate Chicken: All Hens on Deck

Brian Yanish - Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Format: Hardcover

A hilarious picture book about pirate chickens and their feared and feathered leader Redfoot!Lily is no ordinary chicken. She dreams of a life off the farm where she can put her grand plans into action.Her wish is granted when pirates recruit her and her fellow chickens and whisk them away...
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I Got a Chicken for My Birthday

Laura Gehl - Carolrhoda Books
Format: Hardcover

What a birthday girl wants more than anything from her Abuela are tickets to the amusement park. Instead she gets a chicken. But this chicken is no ordinary chicken; it has plans! With a lot of hard work, and help from lots of other animals, this chicken may just end up building the girl...
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