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Children will enjoy the rhythm, language, and fast action in this story told from a young African American girl's point of view. The chicken-chasing queen is an audacious child who simply loves chasing chickens, especially her favorite red hen, who is very good at running away. But she changes her mind when she sees the hen sitting very still on eggs with a few baby chicks already hatched. The humorous illustrations combine painting and fabric and paper collage.
Teaching/Learning Opportunities
- Invite children to predict what will happen in the story.
- Invite children to find the place where the girl changes her mind about wanting to catch the hen.
- Invite children to compare the girl's behavior at the beginning and the ending of the story.
- Draw children's attention to interesting descriptive language, for example: "Her features are shiny as a rained-on roof. She has high yellow stockings and long-fingered feet, and when she talks-'Pruck! Pruck! Pruck!'-it sounds like pennies falling on a dinner plate."
- Draw attention to unusual words and phrases such as worms, slurms, swishy-mishy, ickly-tickly worms.
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