{"id":2160,"date":"2012-08-26T17:49:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T21:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2021-08-14T14:09:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T18:09:53","slug":"chickens-chicks-and-little-red-hens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/chickens-chicks-and-little-red-hens\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amazing Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September is National Chicken Month. (Celebrate?) See below for chicken books, chicken mummies, a dinosaur made from chicken bones, and Emily Dickinson&#8217;s opinion of why the chicken crossed the road.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e9bbc522b18\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" 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href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/chickens-chicks-and-little-red-hens\/2\/#THE_SKY_IS_FALLING\" >THE SKY IS FALLING!<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/chickens-chicks-and-little-red-hens\/2\/#CHICKEN-HEARTED\" >CHICKEN-HEARTED?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/chickens-chicks-and-little-red-hens\/3\/#LITTLE_RED_HENS\" >LITTLE RED HENS<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/chickens-chicks-and-little-red-hens\/3\/#_WHY_DID_THE_CHICKEN_CROSS_THE_ROAD\" >\u00a0WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/chickens-chicks-and-little-red-hens\/4\/#SCIENCE_WITH_CHICKENS\" >SCIENCE WITH CHICKENS<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/chickens-chicks-and-little-red-hens\/4\/#MATH_WITH_CHICKENS\" >MATH WITH CHICKENS<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/chickens-chicks-and-little-red-hens\/4\/#THE_ONCE_AND_FUTURE_CHICKEN\" >THE ONCE AND FUTURE CHICKEN<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/chickens-chicks-and-little-red-hens\/5\/#MUMMIFY_A_CHICKEN\" >MUMMIFY A CHICKEN!<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/chickens-chicks-and-little-red-hens\/5\/#Arts_Crafts_and_Chickens\" >Arts, Crafts, and Chickens<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/chickens-chicks-and-little-red-hens\/5\/#POETIC_CHICKENS\" >POETIC CHICKENS<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-12\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/chickens-chicks-and-little-red-hens\/5\/#CHICKENS_IN_THE_MOVIES\" >CHICKENS IN THE MOVIES<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-13\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/chickens-chicks-and-little-red-hens\/5\/#CHICKENS_IN_YOUR_BACKYARD\" >CHICKENS IN YOUR BACKYARD<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-14\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/chickens-chicks-and-little-red-hens\/5\/#A_GIFT_OF_CHICKENS\" >A GIFT OF CHICKENS<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"CHICKEN_TALES\"><\/span><strong>CHICKEN TALES<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16074\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Chickensrescue-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Chickensrescue-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Chickensrescue-1024x828.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Chickensrescue-768x621.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Chickensrescue-1536x1241.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Chickensrescue.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In John Himmelman\u2019s hysterical <em>Chickens to the Rescue<\/em> (Henry Holt and Company, 2006), daily disasters \u2013 for example, when Farmer Greenstalk drops his watch down the well, Mrs. Greenstalk is too tired to cook dinner, or a duck steals the family truck \u2013 are expeditiously dealt with by a frenetic flock of chickens, who promptly rally round to the refrain of \u201cChickens to the rescue!\u201d Except on Sunday, that is, the chickens\u2019 day of rest, when it\u2019s over to the pigs. Sequels include <em>Pigs to the Rescue<\/em> and <em>Cows to the Rescue<\/em>. For ages 3-6.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16099\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/minerva-louise-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/minerva-louise-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/minerva-louise.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Janet Morgan Stoeke\u2019s silly, but endearing, <em>Minerva Louise<\/em> (Dutton Juvenile, 1988) is the Amelia Bedelia of chickens, as she goofily wanders indoors and explores the farmhouse with the red curtains, mistakenly identifying the family cat as a friendly cow, a flowered bedspread as a meadow, a tricycle as a tractor, and a flowerpot as an easy chair. Several sequels. For ages 3-6.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rosies-walk-hardcover_1_fullsize-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rosies-walk-hardcover_1_fullsize-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rosies-walk-hardcover_1_fullsize-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rosies-walk-hardcover_1_fullsize-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rosies-walk-hardcover_1_fullsize.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Pat Hutchins\u2019s <em>Rosie\u2019s Walk<\/em> (Aladdin, 1971), Rosie \u2013 a red-and-yellow chicken \u2013 emerges from her coop and goes on a walk, oblivious to a pursuing fox whom she blithely causes to step on a rake, fall into a pond, smother in flour, and careen into a beehive. Finally, still happily clueless, she returns to her coop, just in time for dinner. For ages 3-6.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/interrupting-chicken-2-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/interrupting-chicken-2-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/interrupting-chicken-2-768x634.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/interrupting-chicken-2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In David Ezra Stein\u2019s <em>Interrupting Chicken<\/em> (Candlewick, 2010), a patient father rooster (in spectacles and carpet slippers) tucks his offspring, a little red chicken, into bed and attempts to read a bedtime story \u2013 only to be continually interrupted by his daughter, who can\u2019t bear the suspense. \u201cOut jumped a little red chicken,\u201d she cries, as her father reaches a crucial point in <em>Hansel and Gretel<\/em>, \u201cand she said \u2018DON\u2019T GO IN! SHE\u2019S A WITCH!\u2019 So Hansel and Gretel didn\u2019t. THE END!\u201d Finally the little red chicken embarks on a story of her own, only to be interrupted by her tired father\u2019s snores. For ages 3-7.<\/p>\n<p>Also see the sequel, <em>Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise<\/em> (2018).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16062\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-cheeks-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-cheeks-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-cheeks-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-cheeks-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-cheeks-1087x1536.jpg 1087w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-cheeks.jpg 1132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>How many (reasonably polite) synonyms can you come up with for bottom, backside, and behind? In Michael Ian Black\u2019s <em>Chicken Cheeks<\/em> (Simon &amp; Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2009), a bear \u2013 determined to nab some distant honey \u2013 makes a teetery and improbable tower of animals, featuring views of their rear ends, among them a rhinoceros rump, polar bear derriere, moose caboose, and, of course, chicken cheeks. For ages 3-7.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16069\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-soup-with-rice-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-soup-with-rice-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-soup-with-rice.jpg 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>What better way to learn the months of the year than with Maurice Sendak\u2019s <em>Chicken Soup with Rice<\/em> (HarperCollins, 1991)? (\u201cIn January it\u2019s so nice\/While slipping on the sliding ice\/To sip hot chicken soup with rice.\u201d) For ages 2-7.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>A recipe for a yummy batch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/recipes\/chicken-and-rice-soup-recipe\/index.html\">chicken soup with rice<\/a> can be found on the Food Network. (Sip it once, sip it twice.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Also see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/beautiful-soup\/\">Soup (Poetic, Primordial, and More)<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16058\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/blue-chicken-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/blue-chicken-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/blue-chicken-1024x1021.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/blue-chicken-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/blue-chicken-768x766.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/blue-chicken-1536x1531.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/blue-chicken-2048x2042.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Deborah Freedman\u2019s <em>Blue Chicken<\/em> (Viking Juvenile, 2011), an artist is painting a barnyard scene when a curious little chicken hops out of the painting to help and tips over the artist\u2019s pot of blue paint. Blue splatters across barnyard, animals, and pages, until finally the now-upset chicken washes it away by spilling the artist\u2019s water jar. The illustrations are wonderful. For ages 4-7.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netstate.com\/states\/symb\/birds\/de_blue_hen_chicken.htm\">Blue Hen Chicken<\/a> is the official state bird of Delaware. Its story dates at least to the Revolutionary War.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16106\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/problem-with-chickens-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/problem-with-chickens-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/problem-with-chickens.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>In Bruce McMillan\u2019s delightfully illustrated <em>The Problem with Chickens<\/em> (HMH, 2005), set in a small town in Iceland, the chickens have stopped laying eggs. What to do? For ages 4-7.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/peeping-beauty-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/peeping-beauty-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/peeping-beauty.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Author Mary Jane Auch must like chickens: her picture books are full of them. <em>Peeping Beauty<\/em> (Holiday House, 1995), for example, is the tale of Poulette, a graceful hen whose dreams of becoming a ballerina lead to a close call with a persuasive fox claiming to be a talent scout. <em>Chickerella<\/em> (Holiday House, 2006) is a fractured Cinderella tale involving glass eggs and a Fairy Goosemother; while <em>Souperchicken<\/em> (Holiday House, 2004) and <em>The Plot Chickens<\/em> (Holiday House, 2010) feature Henrietta, a bookish chicken who has taught herself to read, write, and type. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16104\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/perfect-nest-258x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/perfect-nest-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/perfect-nest-882x1024.jpg 882w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/perfect-nest-768x892.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/perfect-nest.jpg 1054w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Catherine Friend\u2019s <em>The Perfect Nest<\/em> (Candlewick, 2007), Jack, a hungry cat, has built the perfect nest in an attempt to lure the perfect chicken to lay the perfect egg for an omelet. The ploy works too well, attracting not only a chicken, but a duck and goose \u2013 each of which lays an egg and then refuses to leave the nest, though Jack does his best to scare them off, with cries of \u201cFlood!\u201d \u201cFire!\u201d and \u201cWOLF!\u201d Finally he manages to evict his guests (with hints about an even better nest at a farm down the road), but by then, to his dismay, the eggs have hatched, producing a trio of fuzzy chicks, who promptly adopt Jack as their dad. The book ends with Jack and his new family peacefully asleep in what is, indeed, a perfect nest. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16089\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/henry-and-chicken-pirates-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/henry-and-chicken-pirates-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/henry-and-chicken-pirates-882x1024.jpg 882w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/henry-and-chicken-pirates-768x891.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/henry-and-chicken-pirates.jpg 1054w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Carolyn Crimi\u2019s <em>Henry and the Crazed Chicken Pirates<\/em> (Candlewick, 2010) \u00a0stars Henry, the bookish son of Barnacle Black Ear, leader of the Buccaneer Bunnies and captain of the <em>Salty Carrot<\/em>.\u00a0 When Henry finds a threatening message in a bottle reading \u201cWe\u2019re coming to steal all yer loot\u201d and signed \u201cyer worst enemies,\u201d the buccanners refuse to pay attention. Henry, however, worried, begins to research and write a book: <em>Henry\u2019s Plan for Impending Danger from Unknown Enemy Who Wrote the Scary Note<\/em>.\u00a0 When the enemy proves to be the Crazed Chicken Pirates, who arrive in a hot-air balloon, Henry manages to save the day. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/my-life-as-a-chicken-287x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/my-life-as-a-chicken-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/my-life-as-a-chicken.jpg 489w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Ellen Kelley\u2019s <em>My Life as a Chicken<\/em> (Harcourt Children\u2019s Books, 2007) is a riotous account of the perils of Pauline Poulet (her motto: \u201cPauline, Prevail!\u201d) who \u2013 after hearing the farmer planning a dinner of chicken pot pie \u2013 flies the coop. She ends up battling foxes, hungry hawks, and cat pirates, before finally, happily, finding a new home in a petting zoo. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16053\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/a-hen-for-izzy-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/a-hen-for-izzy-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/a-hen-for-izzy.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Aubrey Davis\u2019s <em>A Hen for Izzy Pippik<\/em> (Kids Can Press, 2012), Shaina finds Yevka, a spectacular hen with gold-speckled emerald feathers. Her hungry family wants to eat Yevka, but Shaina insists that the hen be returned to its rightful (absent) owner, Izzy Pippik. By the time Pippik returns to town, Yevka\u2019s many chicks have overrun everything in sight, infuriating the townspeople \u2013 until they realize that the green-feathered chickens are attracting visitors and bringing prosperity. The generous Pippik rewards Shaina\u2019s honesty by allowing the townspeople to keep them. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16124\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/wolfs-chicken-strw-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/wolfs-chicken-strw-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/wolfs-chicken-strw.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Keiko Kasza\u2019s <em>The Wolf\u2019s Chicken Stew<\/em> (Puffin, 1996), Wolf decides to fatten up a chicken \u2013 his prospective future meal \u2013 by delivering piles of goodies to her doorstep: 100 pancakes the first night, then 100 donuts, and finally a 100-pound cake. When the Wolf arrives at the door to claim his fattened chicken, he finds that she\u2019s been feeding an enormous family of baby chicks, who pounce upon him gratefully with cries of \u201cUncle Wolf!\u201d The wolf, won over, heads home to plan a new treat for tomorrow. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16059\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chanticleer-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chanticleer-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chanticleer.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><em>Chanticleer and the Fox<\/em> (HarperCollins, 1982), with illustrations by Barbara Cooney, is a picture-book version of Chaucer\u2019s \u201cNun\u2019s Priest\u2019s Tale\u201d in which a wily fox (almost) tricks a conceited rooster. For ages 4-8. Also see Helen Ward\u2019s <em>The Rooster and the Fox<\/em> (Millbrook Press, 2003).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16060\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-big-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-big-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-big-700x1024.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-big-768x1123.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-big-1050x1536.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-big-1400x2048.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-big.jpg 1750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Keith Graves\u2019s <em>Chicken Big<\/em> (Chronicle Books, 2010), set on a teeny little farm populated by very small hens, a simply enormous egg hatches out a humongous yellow chick. \u201cIt\u2019s an elephant!\u201d squawks the smallest chicken. \u201cIndoor elephants are dangerous!\u201d The story has wacky elements of \u201cChicken Little\u201d and \u201cThe Blind Men and the Elephant,\u201d and a warm charm all its own, as eventually the patient, kindly, and gigantic chick convinces his freaky flock that he is indeed a chicken. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Listen to NPR\u2019s Scott Simon and author Daniel Pinkwater read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=131292515\"><em>Chicken Big<\/em><\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16097\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/louise-adventures-of-chicken-272x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/louise-adventures-of-chicken-272x300.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/louise-adventures-of-chicken.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Kate DiCamillo\u2019s <em>Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken<\/em> (HarperCollins, 2008), brave Louise \u2013 a \u201cnot-so-chicken chicken\u201d \u2013 survives pirates on the high seas, a high-wire walk and a chicken-eating circus lion, and an ominous dark stranger in a foreign bazaar, finally returning home to entertain her coopmates with stories of her exploits. A short chapter book for ages 4-8, with illustrations by Harry Bliss.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/files.harpercollins.com\/PDF\/ActivitiesGuides\/0060755555.pdf\">Louise, The Adventures of a Chicken<\/a>\u00a0has creative activities to accompany the book, among them inventing (and illustrating) adventures for a traveling pet (stuffed animal), writing an animal adventure book, or re-writing the adventures of Louise.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/the-chicken-of-the-family-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/the-chicken-of-the-family-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/the-chicken-of-the-family.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Mary Amato\u2019s <em>The Chicken of the Family<\/em> (Putnam Juvenile Books, 2008), Henrietta\u2019s teasing big sisters Kim and Clare tell her a secret &#8211; she\u2019s really a chicken. (\u201cMom got you from Barney\u2019s farm.\u201d) Henrietta, upset, is finally convinced, and heads off for Barney\u2019s farm &#8211; where she finds that the chickens are much nicer to her than her big sisters are. Now Kim and Clare are hard put to persuade Henrietta that she\u2019s a little girl again. Funny, charming, and there\u2019s a lesson here about the perils of teasing. (Younger siblings especially will love it.) For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maryamato.com\/books\/the-chicken-of-the-familyreaders-theater-script\">Chicken of the Family Reader\u2019s Theater script<\/a> calls for five characters plus any number of supporting chickens.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rooster-prince-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rooster-prince-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rooster-prince.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Ann Redisch Stampler\u2019s <em>The Rooster Prince of Breslov<\/em> (Clarion Books, 2010) is a retelling of a traditional Jewish folktale about a prince who suddenly tears off his clothes, squawks and clucks, and insists that he\u2019s a rooster. A wise old man \u2013 willing to pretend to be a rooster too \u2013 finally convinces the prince to become a human being again. For ages 5-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16118\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/trouble-with-chickens-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/trouble-with-chickens-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/trouble-with-chickens.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Doreen Cronin\u2019s <em>The Trouble with Chickens<\/em> (Balzer + Bray, 2012), J.J. Tully, retired search-and-rescue dog, is approached by a chicken who needs helps in finding two missing chicks. Funny, clever, and narrated in the first person by J.J., who sounds a bit like Sam Spade. The first of a series. For ages 6 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><strong><a class=\"rg_l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fimages-na.ssl-images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FI%2F81V6XOPS3FL.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FChicken-Squad-First-Misadventure%2Fdp%2F1442496770&amp;docid=yKFR6RjIb7HvMM&amp;tbnid=ZZsiybtuQ7O-jM%3A&amp;vet=10ahUKEwjukMv4qZ7hAhWpnOAKHebaBx8QMwiAASgAMAA..i&amp;w=1399&amp;h=1927&amp;bih=1137&amp;biw=1387&amp;q=the%20chicken%20squad%20the%20first%20misadventure&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjukMv4qZ7hAhWpnOAKHebaBx8QMwiAASgAMAA&amp;iact=mrc&amp;uact=8\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16070\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-squad-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-squad-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-squad.jpg 372w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Doreen Cronin\u2019s hilarious <em>The Chicken Squad: The First Misadventure<\/em> (Atheneum, 2015) is the first of a series starring the crime-fighting Chicken Squad (Dirt, Sugar, Poppy, and Sweetie). This misadventure begins with a scatty and terrified squirrel. For ages 6-10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16111\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/secret-chicken-society-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/secret-chicken-society-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/secret-chicken-society.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Judy Cox\u2019s <em>The Secret Chicken Society<\/em> (Holiday House, 2012), Daniel\u2019s third-grade class hatches chicken eggs, and Daniel ends up with five chicks to take home \u2013 including his special favorite, Peepers. Chick care turns out to be challenging, and even illegal, when Peepers turns out to be a rooster, forbidden within the city limits. A funny, chicken-friendly, (and informational) chapter book for ages 6-10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16090\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hoboken-chicken-emergency-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hoboken-chicken-emergency-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hoboken-chicken-emergency.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/td>\n<td>In Daniel Pinkwater\u2019s hilarious <em>The Hoboken Chicken Emergency<\/em> (Aladdin, 2007), Arthur Bobowicz is dispatched to fetch the family Thanksgiving turkey, but returns home instead with Henrietta, a colossal 266-pound chicken on a leash \u2013 who escapes and wreaks havoc. For ages 7-11.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16084\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fables-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fables-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fables.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Arnold Lobel\u2019s cleverly illustrated <em>Fables<\/em> (HarperCollins, 1983) is a collection of twenty one-page original fables, each with an accompanying helpful moral. (\u201cIt is always difficult to pose as something one is not.\u201d \u201cIt is the high and mighty who have the longest distance to fall.\u201d) Two of the stories involve chickens: \u201cThe Hen and the Apple Tree\u201d and \u201cThe Young Rooster.\u201d For ages 7-11.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16119\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/unusual-chickens-exceptional-farmer-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/unusual-chickens-exceptional-farmer-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/unusual-chickens-exceptional-farmer-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/unusual-chickens-exceptional-farmer-768x1135.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/unusual-chickens-exceptional-farmer-1040x1536.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/unusual-chickens-exceptional-farmer-1386x2048.jpg 1386w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/unusual-chickens-exceptional-farmer.jpg 1726w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<p><strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/td>\n<td>In Kelly Jones\u2019s <em>Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer<\/em> (Yearling, 2016), Sophie\u2019s family has just inherited a great-uncle\u2019s farm \u2013 where Sophie discovers his flock of extraordinary chickens with superpowers. The story is told through letters, to-do lists, newspaper articles, a chicken-care correspondence course, and more. Funny and absolutely delightful for ages 8-12.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16061\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-boy-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-boy-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-boy-686x1024.jpg 686w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-boy-768x1146.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-boy.jpg 804w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Frances O\u2019Roark Dowell\u2019s <em>Chicken Boy<\/em> (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2008), seventh-grader Tobin McCauley has a lot on his plate: juvenile-delinquent siblings, a neglectful father, a dead mother, and a grandmother in jail. Then he becomes friends with Henry Otis, the new kid in town, and embarks on a chicken-raising project \u2013 \u201cWhen you learn about chickens, you will learn about life,\u201d says Henry \u2013 that ultimately leads to family reunion and self-discovery. For ages 10-14.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>THE SKY IS FALLING!<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>There are many available versions of the story of Chicken Little, also known as Chicken Licken or Henny Penny. In all, the main character \u2013 irrationally believing that the sky is falling \u2013 convinces a lot of other animal characters to run for their lives. Classically, many of them end up eaten by a cagey fox (but not always).<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16065\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-little-Emberley-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-little-Emberley-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-little-Emberley.jpg 493w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Rebecca Emberley\u2019s <em>Chicken Little<\/em> (Roaring Brook Press, 2009), the googly-eyed Chicken Little (\u201cnot the brightest chicken in the coop\u201d) is bonked by an acorn, thinks the sky is falling, and leads a troop of equally silly friends into a \u201cwarm dark cave\u201d \u2013 a fox\u2019s mouth. A good bet for the tender-hearted, since it ends with a miraculous escape. For ages 3-7.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16066\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-little-Kellogg-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-little-Kellogg-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-little-Kellogg.jpg 601w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In Steven Kellogg\u2019s <em>Chicken Little<\/em> (HarperCollins, 1987), the hysterical Chicken Little and friends are lured into a poultry van by a fox disguised as a policeman, with a last-minute save by a helicopter piloted by a hippopotamus. For ages 3-7.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16088\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/henny-penny-Galdone-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/henny-penny-Galdone-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/henny-penny-Galdone-768x521.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/henny-penny-Galdone.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Paul Galdone\u2019s <em>Henny Penny<\/em> (Sandpiper, 1984), the main character is an excitable black-and-white hen who sets off with a gang of credulous friends to warn the king that the sky is falling. All end up as dinner for the fox. Be warned. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16087\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/henny-penny-by-French-273x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/henny-penny-by-French-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/henny-penny-by-French.jpg 455w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Vivian French\u2019s <em>Henny Penny<\/em> (Bloomsbury USA, 2006) is more on the ball than most; once the fox has inveigled her and her friends into his den, Henny Penny \u2013 taking into account the chicken cookbook, bubbling stew pot, and some telltale bones and feathers \u2013 fools the fox and engineers a mass escape. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/terrible-plop-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/terrible-plop-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/terrible-plop.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Ursula Dubosarsky\u2019s rhyming picture book <em>The Terrible Plop<\/em> (Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, 2009) is a chicken-less take on <em>Chicken Little<\/em>. Six rabbits, happily munching carrots and chocolate cake beside a lake, are terrified by a terrible PLOP. Five of them flee into the forest, picking up along the way a train of other scared animals, including a fox, monkey, pig, elephant, tiger, bat, and a big brown bear. The sixth stay-behind rabbit reveals the source of the terrible PLOP \u2013 it was an apple falling into the lake. For ages 3-7.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16056\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/big-chickens-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/big-chickens-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/big-chickens-1024x875.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/big-chickens-768x656.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/big-chickens-1536x1312.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/big-chickens-2048x1749.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Leslie Helakoski\u2019s <em>Big Chickens<\/em> (Puffin, 2008) are a nervous quartet of cowards. Frightened by a (quite pleasant-looking) wolf, they flee their coop, only to be terrified by a muddy ditch (bottomless pit?), a herd of cows, and a lake (icebergs?), until they end up in the wolf\u2019s cave \u2013 where they inadvertently terrify the wolf. Sequels include <em>Big Chickens Fly the Coop<\/em> and <em>Big Chickens Go to Town<\/em>. For ages 3-7.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From the California Digital Library, check out this illustrated 19<sup>th<\/sup>-century edition of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/remarkablestoryo00bostiala\">The Remarkable Story of Chicken Little<\/a>.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-little-movie-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-little-movie-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-little-movie-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-little-movie-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-little-movie-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-little-movie.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In the animated movie version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0371606\/\">Chicken Little<\/a> (Disney, 2005), Chicken Little and his band of misfit friends save the world from disaster (an alien invasion).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16116\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Thurber-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Thurber-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Thurber.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>James Thurber\u2019s wonderfully funny Chicken-Little story, \u201cThe Day the Dam Broke,\u201d is found in <em>My Life and Hard Times<\/em> (Harper Modern Perennial Classics, 1999). During the 1913 Ohio flood, a rumor that the dam had broken swept the town of Columbus, resulting in a panic-stricken rout of hundreds of people, many of whom ended up climbing trees in Franklin Park, four miles out of town. The dam, needless to say, had not broken. For ages 12 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Read \u201cThe Day the Dam Broke\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/downwithtyranny.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/thurber-tonight-my-life-and-hard-times_09.html\">online<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>CHICKEN-HEARTED?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/books\/features\/when-did-chicken-become-synonymous-with-being-afraid-9887896.html\">When did &#8220;chicken&#8221; come to mean &#8220;cowardly?&#8221;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16076\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chico-the-brave-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chico-the-brave-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chico-the-brave.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>The hero of Dave Horowitz\u2019s <em>Chico the Brave<\/em> (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2012) is an adorable, but cowardly, little yellow chick from the Andes Mountains. Attempting to calm Chico\u2019s fears, which include a terror of his own shadow, his father invents the story of the fabulous Golden Chicken who \u2013 whenever someone is in trouble \u2013 swoops in to save the day. Chico sets off to find the Golden Chicken, ends up saving his flock from a gang of wicked llamas, and discovers that he\u2019s braver than he thought he was. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/daisy-comes-home-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/daisy-comes-home-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/daisy-comes-home-1024x1021.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/daisy-comes-home-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/daisy-comes-home-768x766.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/daisy-comes-home-1536x1532.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/daisy-comes-home-2048x2042.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Jan Brett\u2019s exquisitely illustrated <em>Daisy Comes Home<\/em> (Puffin, 2005), set in China, Daisy is the smallest and unhappiest of Mei Mei\u2019s six supposedly happy flock, picked on and teased by the larger hens. Miserable, she decides to spend the night in a basket by the side of the river \u2013 and is swept away into a series of adventures with a dog, a water buffalo, a gang of monkeys, and a fisherman. By the time Mei Mei rescues her and brings her back home, Daisy has become brave and self-confident, and is able to stand up to the rest of the flock. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16082\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ellray-jakes-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ellray-jakes-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ellray-jakes-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ellray-jakes-768x1176.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ellray-jakes-1004x1536.jpg 1004w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ellray-jakes-1338x2048.jpg 1338w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ellray-jakes.jpg 1519w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>EllRay Jakes, the star of Sally Warner\u2019s <em>EllRay Jakes is Not a Chicken!<\/em> (Puffin, 2012), is eight years old, the shortest person in the third grade, and the favorite victim of Jared Matthews, the class bully, and his sidekick Stanley. EllRay tries to understand Jared\u2019s unprovoked attacks \u2013 it\u2019s not, he determines, because he\u2019s black (\u201cJared would have said something if it was. He is not the type of kid to keep things to himself.\u201d); in fact, maybe it\u2019s for no reason at all. Trouble escalates until EllRay\u2019s father promises him a day at Disneyland if he can just keep out of trouble for one week \u2013 which looks iffy, until EllRay and Jared manage to solve their problems. This is the first of a series featuring EllRay, whose chatty first-person narration makes for a fun read. For ages 7-11.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>LITTLE RED HENS<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>The Little Red Hen<\/em> is an old folktale traditionally used to emphasize the importance of the work ethic. (&#8220;If any man will not work, neither let him eat.&#8221;) This can backfire. My kids, when first exposed to the Hen, thought she was a sanctimonious twit.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16094\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/little-red-hen-Galdone-277x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/little-red-hen-Galdone-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/little-red-hen-Galdone-945x1024.jpg 945w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/little-red-hen-Galdone-768x832.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/little-red-hen-Galdone.jpg 1384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Paul Galdone\u2019s <em>Little Red Hen<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin, 2011), the hen, cat, dog, and mouse are roommates, but cat, dog, and mouse slothfully sleep on the couch all day while hen does the work of wheat-planting, harvesting, grinding, and cake-baking. At the end, the hen eats the cake all by herself, thus providing an object lesson on the benefits of pitching in to do chores. My kids\u2019 response: \u201cWell, why didn\u2019t she <em>tell<\/em> them that they wouldn\u2019t get any cake if they didn\u2019t help out?\u201d Good question. For ages 3-6.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16115\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/the-red-hen-emberley-293x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/the-red-hen-emberley-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/the-red-hen-emberley.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><em>The Red Hen<\/em> by Rebecca Emberley and Ed Emberley (Roaring Brook Press, 2010) stars a great paper-collage red hen, an unhelpful cat, rat, and frog, and a Splendid Cake (recipe included). For ages 3-6.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16095\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/little-red-hen-pinkney-300x283.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/little-red-hen-pinkney-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/little-red-hen-pinkney-1024x965.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/little-red-hen-pinkney-768x724.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/little-red-hen-pinkney-1536x1447.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/little-red-hen-pinkney-2048x1930.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Jerry Pinkney\u2019s elaborately illustrated <em>Little Red Hen<\/em> (Dial, 2006), the hen (who wears a straw hat and flowered shawl) lives with her five chicks; the help-refusing dog, rat, goat, and pig with their refrains of \u201cNot I!\u201d are merely neighbors. The message here is enhanced by the nature of the hen\u2019s appeals: she doesn\u2019t merely plead for help, but points out each animal\u2019s special gift \u2013 the dog, for example, is good at digging \u2013 which emphasizes the potential benefits of teamwork. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Florence White Williams\u2019s version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/18735\/18735-h\/18735-h.htm\">The Little Red Hen<\/a>, originally published in 1918, can be read online at Project Gutenberg.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Enchanted Learning&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enchantedlearning.com\/stories\/fairytale\/littleredhen\/story\/\">The Little Red Hen<\/a> is a rebus puzzle. Fun for beginners (with help).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hubbardscupboard.org\/the_little_red_hen.html\">The Little Red Hen<\/a> lesson plan has discussion questions and activities, among them baking bread in a bag and making a cool \u201cretelling mural.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>EconEdLink&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.econedlink.org\/resources\/the-little-red-hen\/\">The Little Red Hen<\/a>\u00a0has an online illustrated version of <em>The Little Red Hen<\/em>, a bread recipe, an experiment to determine why bread rises, and many helpful links to bread and the bread-making process. Targeted at grades K-5.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16096\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/little-red-hen-pizza-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/little-red-hen-pizza-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/little-red-hen-pizza-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/little-red-hen-pizza-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/little-red-hen-pizza-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/little-red-hen-pizza-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/little-red-hen-pizza.jpg 1950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Philemon Sturges\u2019s <em>The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza)<\/em> (Puffin, 2002), the hen, refused help by the duck, dog, and cat, goes to the store for pizza supplies and finally manages to make a pizza \u2013 which she shares, since duck, dog, and cat offer to clean up and do the dishes. The colorful cut-paper illustrations are filled with hilarious details: the duck wears a rubber-turtle inner tube and a bathing cap; the hen has a pair of bunny slippers on her clothesline and a can of worms in her cupboard. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16078\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cook-a-doodle-doo-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cook-a-doodle-doo-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cook-a-doodle-doo-1024x870.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cook-a-doodle-doo-768x653.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cook-a-doodle-doo.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Janet Stevens\u2019s <em>Cook-a-Doodle-Doo!<\/em> (Sandpiper, 2005), Big Brown Rooster and friends Turtle, Iguana, and Pig \u2013 using the cookbook of Rooster\u2019s great-grandmother, the Little Red Hen \u2013 manage to produce a Magnificent Strawberry Shortcake. It\u2019s not easy, though: when Turtle asks for flour, Iguana dashes off to pick a petunia; when asked to beat an egg; Iguana moves in with a baseball bat. A recipe is included. For ages 4-8, with help.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><strong><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/with-love-little-red-hen-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/with-love-little-red-hen-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/with-love-little-red-hen-902x1024.jpg 902w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/with-love-little-red-hen-768x872.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/with-love-little-red-hen-1352x1536.jpg 1352w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/with-love-little-red-hen.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Alma Flor Ada\u2019s <em>With Love, Little Red Hen<\/em> (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2004), the Little Red Hen and her seven chicks have just moved to the storybook neighborhood of Hidden Forest and the Hen is trying to get help from her neighbors \u2013 among them Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks, Peter Rabbit, and the Three Little Pigs \u2013 to plant her garden. Like Ada\u2019s earlier books, <em>Dear Peter Rabbit<\/em> and <em>Yours Truly, Goldilocks<\/em>, the story is told through a series of letters. For ages 5-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/why-did-chicken-cross-road-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/why-did-chicken-cross-road-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/why-did-chicken-cross-road-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/why-did-chicken-cross-road.jpg 651w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><em>Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?<\/em> (Dial, 2006), a collaboration of fourteen talented artists, is a marvelous collection of unexpected illustrated answers to the classic joke. Harry Bliss\u2019s frantic chicken flees invading zombie chickens from Mars; Jon Agee\u2019s chicken (and the rest of the city) flee Godzilla-like lizards; Mo Willems\u2019s harried chicken confesses his crime to the police; and Jerry Pinkney\u2019s Little Red Hen heads for a tea party. Readers are bound to come up with creative alternative answers (and chickens) of their own. For ages 5-9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16098\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Macaulay-chicken-crossed-road-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Macaulay-chicken-crossed-road-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Macaulay-chicken-crossed-road.jpg 412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In David Macaulay\u2019s picture book <em>Why the Chicken Crossed the Road<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 1987), the road-crossing chicken sets off a chain of disastrous events \u2013 a cow stampede, a bridge collapse, a bandit escape, a bathroom explosion \u2013 finally looping back around to the chicken again. A hoot for all ages.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekidzpage.com\/freekidsgames\/games\/childrens-online-chicken-game\/free-kids-online-game-children.htm\">Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?<\/a>\u00a0is an online game in which kids try to maneuver a chicken through four lanes of highway traffic to get to the worm on the other side.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>At this website, the question <a href=\"https:\/\/philosophynow.org\/issues\/13\/Why_did_the_chicken_cross_the_road\">Why did the chicken cross the road?<\/a> is answered as if by famous philosophers, writers, and political figures.\u00a0(Emily Dickinson: \u201cBecause it could not stop for death.\u201d)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>SCIENCE WITH CHICKENS<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; height: 2414px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16073\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chickens-Gibbons-292x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chickens-Gibbons-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chickens-Gibbons-996x1024.jpg 996w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chickens-Gibbons-768x789.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chickens-Gibbons-1495x1536.jpg 1495w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chickens-Gibbons-1993x2048.jpg 1993w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">Gail Gibbons\u2019s <em>Chicks and Chickens<\/em> (Holiday House, 2005) is an attractively illustrated picture-book introduction to chicken biology and behavior, variously covering egg-laying, embryo development and hatching, the characteristics of chicks, hens, and roosters, and a survey of chicken breeds. For ages 5-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 255px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 255px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/where-do-chicks-come-from-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/where-do-chicks-come-from-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/where-do-chicks-come-from.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 255px;\">Amy Sklansky\u2019s <em>Where Do Chicks Come From?<\/em> (HarperCollins, 2005) in the extensive Let\u2019s-Read-and-Find-Out Science series covers the anatomy of the egg and (day by day) the three-week-long development of a chick. For ages 4-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 189px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 189px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chick-hatching-incubator-640313674-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chick-hatching-incubator-640313674-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chick-hatching-incubator-640313674-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chick-hatching-incubator-640313674.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 189px;\">Birth! Watch baby chicks hatching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FWGZZ5U5cfs\">here<\/a>!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16071\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chickens-arens-only-ones-284x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chickens-arens-only-ones-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chickens-arens-only-ones-969x1024.jpg 969w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chickens-arens-only-ones-768x812.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chickens-arens-only-ones-1453x1536.jpg 1453w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chickens-arens-only-ones-1937x2048.jpg 1937w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">Ruth Heller\u2019s <em>Chickens Aren\u2019t the Only Ones<\/em> (Puffin, 1999) is a gorgeously illustrated picture-book celebration of egg-layers, with an appealing and informational rhyming text. It begins, of course, with the chicken. For ages 3-8.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 58px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 58px;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 58px;\">Activities at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/la\/kinderthemes\/chickens.html\">Chickens Aren\u2019t the Only Ones<\/a>\u00a0include making biscuit \u201ceggs,\u201d oviparous headbands, and egg booklets.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/unnamed-270x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/unnamed-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/unnamed.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu\/explore\/embryology\/\">Chickscope<\/a> has a detailed account of the 21-day chick developmental process. Included for each day are diagrams, photographs, explanations, and related math and science projects.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 130px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 130px;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 130px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/urbanext.illinois.edu\/eggs\/res00-index.html\">Incubation and Embryology<\/a> from the University of Illinois Extension has an excellent collection of detailed resources on chickens, chick embryology, and eggs. Included are instructions for building a simple cardboard-box incubator and a coffee-can egg candler.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 148px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 148px;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 148px;\">Also from the University of Illinois Extension, <a href=\"http:\/\/urbanext.illinois.edu\/eggs\/activities.html\">activities for younger students<\/a> include a series of downloadable worksheets in which kids can label and identify the parts of an egg and a chicken, determine which egg is fertile, size and grade eggs, measure incubation temperatures, and more.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 76px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 76px;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 76px;\">Sources for incubators, eggs, and chick supplies include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mypetchicken.com\">My Pet Chicken<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strombergschickens.com\/\">Stromberg\u2019s Chicks and Game Birds<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolina.com\">Carolina Biological Supply Company<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 94px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 94px;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 94px;\">Learn all about bones, cartilage, ligaments, and muscles by dissecting a chicken leg. For explanations and instructions, see <a href=\"http:\/\/birgitself.wordpress.com\/powerpoint-lesson-plan-dissecting-a-chicken-leg\/\">Dissecting a Chicken Leg<\/a>, a biology lesson targeted at grades 3-6.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 76px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 76px;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 76px;\">Make a dinosaur &#8211; from a chicken? Read about reverse-engineering a dinosaur from a chicken at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/17642-chickenosaurus-jack-horner-create-dinosaur.html\">Dino-Chicken<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/punctuated-equilibrium\/2011\/jun\/14\/1\">Building a Dinosaur from a Chicken<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/punctuated-equilibrium\/2011\/jun\/14\/1\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 318px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 318px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16081\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dinosaur-from-chicken-bones-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dinosaur-from-chicken-bones-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dinosaur-from-chicken-bones.jpg 355w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 318px;\">Paleontologist Chris McGowan\u2019s <em>Make Your Own Dinosaur Out of Chicken Bones<\/em> (HarperPerennial, 1997) has a lot of interesting dinosaur information and complete instructions for making your own chicken-bone Apatosaurus. You\u2019ll need three chickens, boiled. A great family project. For ages 9 and up, with help.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 58px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 58px;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 58px;\">\u00a0 Which came first: the chicken or the egg? Answer: the chicken. Really. Read about it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/07\/100709083751.htm\">Computer Cracks Eggshell Problem<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 58px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 300px; height: 58px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20569\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hqdefault-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hqdefault-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hqdefault.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 58px;\">Find out what astrobiology-loving high-school students can do with a rubber chicken at <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-news\/science-at-nasa\/2012\/19apr_camilla\/\">Space Chicken<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/5904596\/meet-camilla-the-rubber-chicken-sent-into-space-for-science\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>MATH WITH CHICKENS<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16057\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/big-fat-hen-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/big-fat-hen-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/big-fat-hen-937x1024.jpg 937w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/big-fat-hen-768x839.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/big-fat-hen.jpg 1098w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Keith Baker\u2019s <em>Big Fat Hen<\/em> (Sandpiper, 1999) is a vibrantly illustrated picture book of the traditional counting rhyme \u201cOne, Two, Buckle My Shoe\u201d with a great gaudy-colored big fat hen. For ages 2-5.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rooster-off-to-see-world-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rooster-off-to-see-world-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rooster-off-to-see-world.jpg 466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>In Eric Carle\u2019s <em>Rooster\u2019s Off to See the World<\/em> (Aladdin, 1999), a gorgeous paper-collage rooster sets out to travel, picking up along the way two cats, three frogs, four turtles, and five fish. Soon, however, it turns out that Rooster hasn\u2019t adequately planned for the trip \u2013 there\u2019s no food and everyone is getting cold \u2013 so soon his companions, one by one, desert, and even Rooster himself eventually turns around and heads for home. It\u2019s a running-away story for everybody who never got farther than the end of the driveway. For ages 3-6.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From Scholastic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholastic.com\/teachers\/lesson-plan\/roosters-see-world-lesson-plan\">Rooster\u2019s Off to See the World Lesson Plan<\/a>\u00a0is a hands-on rooster-based exercise in addition and subtraction.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16079\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/count-yr-chickens-game-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/count-yr-chickens-game-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/count-yr-chickens-game.jpg 481w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Peaceable-Kingdom-Chickens-Winning-Cooperative\/dp\/B014DEFJV8\/\">Count Your Chickens<\/a> (Peaceable Kingdom) is an award-winning cooperative board game for ages 3-6 in which players count spaces to collect baby chicks and return them to their coop. Comes with 40 chicks and one mother hen.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.makinglearningfun.com\/themepages\/ChickenMathIdeas.htm\">Chicken Math Ideas<\/a>\u00a0has printable activities for early-elementary-level students, including dot-to-dot puzzles, counting sheets, patterning problems, color-by-number pages, and addition exercises.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>Solve the famous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathsisfun.com\/chicken_crossing_solution.html\">Chicken Crossing<\/a> logic puzzle!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16102\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/one-hen-small-loans-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/one-hen-small-loans-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/one-hen-small-loans-773x1024.jpg 773w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/one-hen-small-loans-768x1018.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/one-hen-small-loans.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Katie Smith Milway\u2019s <em>One Hen<\/em> (Kids Can Press, 2008), set in Ghana, is a picture-book explanation of micro-loan banking and its impact on people in developing countries. After Kojo\u2019s father dies, he and his mother receive a tiny amount of money \u2013 a micro-loan \u2013 from their village to buy something to improve their lives. Hopefully their decision will enable them to pay back the loan, which will then be passed on to another needy villager. Kojo buys a hen \u2013 and from that hen gradually builds a thriving poultry business. His success impacts all around him. A wonderful story of mutual support and hope for ages 7-11.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>THE ONCE AND FUTURE CHICKEN<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From<em> Smithsonian<\/em> magazine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history-archaeology\/How-the-Chicken-Conquered-the-World.html\">How the Chicken Conquered the World<\/a>\u00a0is an interesting account of the history (and science) of the chicken from its origin in Asia to modern times.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-16091 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/home-to-roost-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/home-to-roost-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/home-to-roost.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Bob Sheasley\u2019s <em>Home to Roost<\/em> (Thomas Dunne Books, 2008), subtitled \u201cA Backyard Farmer Chases Chickens Through the Ages,\u201d is a chatty and charming account of the life and times of the chicken, encompassing everything from Chaucer\u2019s Chanticleer to pecking order and the chicken genome. For teens and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/the-chicken-bk-Page-Smith-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/the-chicken-bk-Page-Smith-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/the-chicken-bk-Page-Smith-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/the-chicken-bk-Page-Smith-768x1153.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/the-chicken-bk-Page-Smith.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Page Smith and Charles Daniel, <em>The Chicken Book<\/em> (University of Georgia Press, 2000) is a history of the chicken from its origins in the Asian jungle to the modern industrial chicken. Included are fascinating chapters on chicken folklore, chicken sayings, cockfighting, chicken breeding, and the culinary chicken. Chicken broth, readers learn, was used as a beauty aid in ancient Egypt. For teens and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16092\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/in-praise-of-chickens-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/in-praise-of-chickens-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/in-praise-of-chickens.jpg 357w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Jane Smith\u2019s <em>In Praise of Chickens<\/em> (Lyons Press, 2011) is a \u00a0nicely designed compendium of all things chicken, with short chapters titled \u201cA Brief History of Chickens: Domesticating Tyrannosaurus Rex,\u201d \u201cCount Your Chickens: The Numerology of Flock and Nest,\u201d and \u201cDumb Clucks and Birdbrains: Can a Chicken Beat You at Checkers?\u201d For teens and adults.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16101\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/natural-hist-of-chicken-dvd-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/natural-hist-of-chicken-dvd-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/natural-hist-of-chicken-dvd-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/natural-hist-of-chicken-dvd.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>A one-hour PBS documentary, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0257954\">The Natural History of the Chicken<\/a> (2000), through interviews, reenactments, and anecdotes, tells the fascinating (and sometimes downright peculiar) story of the chicken in American life. Available on DVD or through Netflix or Amazon Instant Video.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<h4><strong>MUMMIFY A CHICKEN!<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-mummy2-300x286.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-mummy2-300x286.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-mummy2.png 437w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Mummify a chicken! Just like (sort of) the ancient Egyptians. See <a href=\"http:\/\/lesson-plans.theteacherscorner.net\/socialstudies\/chicken.php\">Chicken Mummies<\/a> at the Teacher\u2019s Corner\u00a0for a materials list and instructions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>Arts, Crafts, and Chickens<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16077\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/colorful-clucking-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/colorful-clucking-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/colorful-clucking.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.se7en.org.za\/2010\/04\/03\/se7en-million-colorful-clucking-chickens\">Colorful Clucking Chickens<\/a>\u00a0is a papercraft-and-pipecleaner project for elementary-level kids. Make a cool flock.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From First School, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.first-school.ws\/theme\/animals\/birds\/chicken.htm\">Chicken and Hen Theme page<\/a> has printable letter sheets (H is for Hen), coloring pages, and crafts for preschoolers, among them a handprint chicken and a chicken greeting card.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20571\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/handprint-chicken-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/handprint-chicken-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/handprint-chicken-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/handprint-chicken.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Make a handprint chicken (or a footprint pig) with these instructions from <a href=\"http:\/\/funhandprintart.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/cute-footprint-pig-and-handprint.html\">Handprint and Footprint Art<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>From Artists Helping Children. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artistshelpingchildren.org\/chickenhensroosterscraftsideasactivitieskids.html\">Chicken and Hen and Rooster Crafts for Kids\u00a0<\/a>has instructions for many varied chicken crafts, among them a stand-up rooster, a paper chicken mask, chicken sock puppets, and thumbprint chicks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16128\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/my-painted-house-2-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/my-painted-house-2-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/my-painted-house-2.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Maya Angelou\u2019s <em>My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me<\/em> (Crown Books for Young Readers, 2003), illustrated with color photographs, is the story of eight-year-old Thandi who lives in a Ndebele village in South Africa. Thandi describes village life and culture to the reader (her \u201cstranger-friend\u201d), concentrating on the things she particularly loves \u2013 the brightly painted houses of the villagers, her mother\u2019s beautiful beadwork, and the chicken who is her best friend. For ages 6-10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/philadelphia-chickens-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/philadelphia-chickens-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/philadelphia-chickens-1024x824.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/philadelphia-chickens-768x618.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/philadelphia-chickens-1536x1237.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/philadelphia-chickens-2048x1649.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Musical chickens! Sandra Boynton\u2019s <em>Philadelphia Chickens<\/em> (Workman Publishing, 2002) is a book-and-CD \u201czoological musical revue,\u201d with 20 catchy tunes, among them the title (chicken) song, performed by the Bacon Brothers. For ages 5 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17604\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Bake chicken cupcakes \u2013 that is, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easycupcakes.com\/chicken-cupcakes\/\">cupcakes that look like chickens<\/a> \u2013 with this recipe from Easy Cupcakes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>POETIC CHICKENS<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20573\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/51SuhUPRRLL._AC_SL1200_-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/51SuhUPRRLL._AC_SL1200_-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/51SuhUPRRLL._AC_SL1200_-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/51SuhUPRRLL._AC_SL1200_.jpg 988w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Check out Jack Prelutsky\u2019s poem <a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/last-night-i-dreamed-chickens\">Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens<\/a>\u00a0The title poem begins: \u201cLast night I dreamed of chickens\/there were chickens everywhere\/they were standing on my stomach\/they were nesting in my hair\u201d).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><\/td>\n<td>At Kenn Nesbitt\u2019s Poetry4Kids, see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetry4kids.com\/poem-473.html#.UDf4G9DheiN\">My Chicken\u2019s on the Internet<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16064\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-haiku-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-haiku-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-haiku-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-haiku.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Karin S. Wiberg\u2019s <em>Chicken Haiku<\/em> (Clear Sight, 2018) is a collection of 24 clever illustrated haiku, all about chickens. All ages.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/red_wheelbarrowpic-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/red_wheelbarrowpic-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/red_wheelbarrowpic.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>William Carlos Williams\u2019s classic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/45502\/the-red-wheelbarrow\">The Red Wheelbarrow <\/a>involves white chickens.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>CHICKENS IN THE MOVIES<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>A very small genre.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16068\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-run-movie-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-run-movie-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-run-movie.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In Peter Lord and Nick Parks\u2019s Claymation comedy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120630\/\"><em>Chicken Run<\/em><\/a> (2000), the residents of a sinister Yorkshire chicken farm (all at risk of Death by Chicken Pie) plan their escape with the help of Rocky Rhodes, an American flying rooster.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/robin-hood-movie-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/robin-hood-movie-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/robin-hood-movie-720x1024.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/robin-hood-movie-768x1092.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/robin-hood-movie-1080x1536.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/robin-hood-movie.jpg 1105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>In Disney\u2019s animated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070608\/\"><em>Robin Hood<\/em><\/a> (1973), all the characters are animals: Robin Hood and Maid Marian are foxes; Little John a brown bear; King John a lion. The minstrel Allan-a-Dale is a rooster (voiced by Roger Miller).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>CHICKENS IN YOUR BACKYARD<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16117\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tillie-lays-an-egg-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tillie-lays-an-egg-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tillie-lays-an-egg-768x618.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tillie-lays-an-egg.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Tillie, of Terry Golson\u2019s <em>Tillie Lays an Egg<\/em> (Scholastic, 2009) lives with six other hens in the henhouse in the backyard of Little Pond Farm. The other hens cooperatively lay their eggs in nesting boxes, but Tillie prefers the garden, the porch, the kitchen, the laundry basket, and the pickup truck. Color photographs follow the unpredictable Tillie around the farm. Think hide-and-seek, with a chicken. For ages 3-7.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\">\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/9781603427579_p0_v4_s1200x630-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/9781603427579_p0_v4_s1200x630-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/9781603427579_p0_v4_s1200x630.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Gail Damerow\u2019s <em>Your Chickens: A Kid\u2019s Guide to Raising and Showing<\/em> (Storey Publishing, 1993) is a useful kid-friendly guide covering all the basics, including chicken breeds, coops, maintenance (What do you feed them? What to do in winter?), and egg management. The book has diagrams, photographs, fact boxes, a glossary, and a source list. For ages 10 and up.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16072\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chickens-for-dummies-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chickens-for-dummies-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chickens-for-dummies.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>By Kimberley Willis and Rob Ludlow, the annoyingly titled <em>Raising Chickens for Dummies<\/em> (For Dummies, 2009) covers all the basics, as does Jerome Belanger\u2019s <em>The Complete Idiot\u2019s Guide to Raising Chickens<\/em> (Alpha, 2010). Comprehensive and useful, though I maintain that ignorance of chickens does not necessarily make you a complete idiot.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17606\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/raising-chickens-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/raising-chickens-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/raising-chickens.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Also helpful for beginners: Gail Damerow\u2019s savvy <em>Storey Guide to Raising Chickens<\/em> (Storey Publishing, 2010); Rick and Gail Luttmann\u2019s <em>Chickens in Your Backyard<\/em> (Rodale Books, 1976); and \u2013 my current favorite &#8211; Jenna Woginrich\u2019s <em>Chick Days: An Absolute Beginner\u2019s Guide to Raising Chickens from Hatching to Laying<\/em> (Storey Publishing, 2011), illustrated with great color photographs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/91yY8UdnOjL._AC_UL600_SR600600_-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/91yY8UdnOjL._AC_UL600_SR600600_-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/91yY8UdnOjL._AC_UL600_SR600600_-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/91yY8UdnOjL._AC_UL600_SR600600_.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Jessi Bloom\u2019s <em>Free-Range Chicken Gardens<\/em> (Timber Press, 2012), illustrated with drawings and color photographs, shows hopeful chicken-owners how to manage both wandering chickens and a growing garden.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16083\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/extraordinary-chickens-270x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/extraordinary-chickens-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/extraordinary-chickens.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>Photographer Stephen Green-Armytage\u2019s <em>Extraordinary Chickens<\/em> (Harry N. Abrams, 2003) covers fifty fantastic, fabulous, and bizarre breeds of chickens with splashy color photos. For even more spectacular chickens, see the sequel <em>Extra Extraordinary Chickens<\/em> (2005).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16063\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-coops-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-coops-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/chicken-coops.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/td>\n<td>Judy Pangman\u2019s <em>Chicken Coops<\/em> (Storey Publishing, 2006) has 45 plans for a range of creative chicken houses, variously for small flocks, large flocks, city flocks, and country flocks. Convert your backyard tool shed or build a coop on wheels.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16054\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/art-of-chicken-coop-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/art-of-chicken-coop-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/art-of-chicken-coop-852x1024.jpg 852w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/art-of-chicken-coop-768x923.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/art-of-chicken-coop-1278x1536.jpg 1278w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/art-of-chicken-coop-1704x2048.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rg_ilmbg\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>For the artistic chicken owner, Chris Gleason\u2019s <em>The Art of the Chicken Coop<\/em> (Fox Chapel Publishing, 2011) has designs, materials lists, and step-by-step instructions for building seven truly gorgeous chicken coops, including a chicken gypsy caravan. Get your kids to try their hands at designing a spectacular coop of their own.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><strong>A GIFT OF CHICKENS<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16086\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/heifer-intl-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/heifer-intl-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/heifer-intl-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rebeccaruppresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/heifer-intl.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heifer.org\">Heifer International<\/a>\u00a0is a charitable organization dedicated to sustainable solutions to world hunger. For $20, donors can give a flock of chickens to a needy family.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September is National Chicken Month. (Celebrate?) 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