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Interrupting Chicken
By (Author) David Ezra Stein
Illustrated by David Ezra Stein
Walker Books Ltd
Walker Books Ltd
1st January 2013
5th November 2012
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
813.6
Winner of Arkansas Diamond Primary Book Award 2013 (United States)
Paperback
40
Width 162mm, Height 215mm, Spine 10mm
225g
A favourite joke inspires this charming tale, in which a little chickens habit of interrupting bedtime stories is gleefully turned on its head.
Its time for the little red chickens bedtime story and a reminder from Papa to try not to interrupt. But the chicken cant help herself! Whether the tale is Hansel and Gretel or Little Red Riding Hood or even Chicken Little, she jumps into the story to save its hapless characters from doing some dangerous or silly thing. Now its the little red chickens turn to tell a story, but will her yawning papa make it to the end without his own kind of interrupting Energetically illustrated with glowing colours and offering humorous story-within-a-story views this all-too-familiar tale is sure to amuse (and hold the attention of) the most spirited little chicks.
A fabulous fauvist palette adds to the high-voltage humour. * Daily Telegraph *
This tender iteration of a familiar night-time ritual will be equally welcomed by fond parents and those children for whom listening to stories is anything but a passive activity. * Kirkus Reviews *
Award-winning author-illustrator David Ezra Stein lives in Kew Gardens, New York.