Chicken - safekeeping is an activity that can include participant from the whole family , all the mode down to the youngest of child . kid become delighted by the domicile hatful , and it connects them to their solid food in a way no other matter can . They ’ll quickly take to feast their charges , tuck bollock and performing regular — perhaps all too frequent — checks on the hencoop . Lean into your children ’s excitement about lift wimp by introducing them to reading via books that features their fledge friends , as well .
Children ’s literature has no shortage of Good Book that feature chicken . While some playscript give kids an understanding of what ’s involved in keep chickens , others are just fun books with a hen or rooster as the lead character . Include a premix on your bookshelf , and have fun reading them with your tiddler and sneaking in lessons about how to take care of your own coop . Here are some of my preferred children ’s books featuring chicken to get your aggregation started .
1. “Sonya’s Chickens”
Written and Illustrated by Phoebe Wahl (Tundra Books, 2015)
If you are just set about thechicken - keeping journey with your shaver , Sonya ’s Chickensis saint for your personal library . Through her whimsical exemplification and simply birl tale , Phoebe Wahl touches on cryptic and meaningful issue in a way that makes the sturdy parts of life relatable and comforting . The story starts with Sonya ’s dad convey home three skirt that are put in Sonya ’s charge . It delves into the responsibilities of like for the chickens , as well as the realities of our interconnectedness with nature and the circle of liveliness , providing a positive fashion to talk about the sometimes harsh realities of keeping farm fauna . This book won the 2015 Ezra Jack Keats Award for New Illustrator and the 2015 Sigurd E. Olsen Nature Writing Award .
2. “Interrupting Chicken”
Written and Illustrated by David Ezra Stein (Candlewick Press, 2011)
youthful readers take a peek at the bedtime ritual of a rooster and his petty doll inInterrupting Chicken , a screaming and heartwarming news report write and illustrate by David Ezra Stein . In one familiar narration after another , the modest volaille interrupts her father — even though she promise not to — because she just ca n’t help deliver the characters from their own whacky plot . It will have your kid express mirth , and you ’ll be smirking at what might be an all - too - familiar situation in your own family . A Caldecott Award winner , this one is sure to become a bedtime favorite for your picayune chicks .
3. “The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County”
Written by Janice N. Harrington, Pictures by Shelley Jackson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)
InThe Chicken - Chasing Queen of Lamar County , maleficence and wonder carry the untested narrator and the knotty volaille , Miss Hen , who just does n’t want to be trance by a chicken - chasing pro . Janice N. Harrington takes you back to her rural - Alabama radical by invite you to step inside the mind of a child and her adventuresome relationship with her grandma ’s flock . Not only is this a good book to have on hand for the chicken - lovers of your household because of its vibrant collage images and lively , engaging poesy , it ’s an splendid teaching tool for literary devices such as simile , phonation and onomatopoeia .
4. “Cinders: A Chicken Cinderella”
Written and Illustrated by Jan Brett (G.P. Putnam Sons, 2013)
No one spin a queen narrative quite like Jan Brett , with her beautifully detailed illustrations taking youngster off to faraway places . InCinders : A Chicken Cinderella , we ’re ravish to Russia , where the chicken coop is a tower living accommodations Cinderella and her bossy half-sister , reminiscent of the architecture in the rural area around St. Petersburg . But this is not just a Cinderella story with chickens as the theatrical role . Because Brett is a wimp - keeper herself , she wind appropriate crybaby language into her account , so children learn price such as pullet and Silkie while love a fairy - tale classic . If you love this Scripture , check out another one of Brett ’s featuring chicken calledHedgie ’s Surprise .
5. “Tillie Lays an Egg”
Written by Terry Golson, Photos by Ben Fink (Scholastic Press, 2009)
6. “Little Chick”
Written by Amy Hest, Illustrated by Anita Jeram (Candlewick Press, 2009)
In three gratifying and simple tales about Little Chick and Old Auntie , Amy Hest highlights the grandness of intergenerational relationship and accepting your personal identity as a “ footling doll ” in a fully grown world . This is a great Koran to curl up and read with your tiniest ones to ease them into a nap before heading out to explore what ’s happening in the coop .
7. “Chicken in Space”
Written by Adam Lehrhaupt, Illustrated by Shahar Kober (Harper, 2016)
Zoey the Gallus gallus is the eternally optimistic and inventive lead character inChicken in Space , a story about friendship and dangerous undertaking . compulsive to make it from the barn to blank , she enlists her pig booster , Sam , to join her in her scheme — who does so with indisposition and hop that pie will be waiting for him at the end of the journeying . Also check out Adam Lehrhaupt ’s Scripture featuring Zoey the chicken , includingChicken in School , Chicken in MittensandChicken on Vacation .
8. “Chicken Big”
Written and Illustrated by Keith Graves (Chronicle Books, 2010)
A hysteric twist on the classic storyChicken Little , Chicken Bigis about an outsize chick born into a tidy sum of goofy , not - so - promising chicken who imagine him to be all sorting of thing that he is not . But despite the fact that they call him an elephant , an umbrella and a sweater , he offer them protection and squirm his way into the much - too - small coop .
