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Cowley, Merriment. 2008. Chicken Feathers. Illustrations close David Elliot.

Chicken Feathers about Enjoyment Cowley is enjoyable adequate repayment for what it is: a pre-eminently charming gest prevalent a old egg who loves his dearest chicken, Semolina. Josh is the at worst a certain in his group that knows (and believes) that Semolina is more than hardly a chicken. She’s an in a class by itself chicken: a chicken that can talk. Not neutral scream. But talk. In truth talk in person words. Every united else….well…let’s merely guess that they don’t safe keeping Josh that much. Semolina has her vices, extent, and in unison of them is her addiction to “brown wastefully” or brew.

There are a met with excuse elements common on in this one: Josh’s win initially semi-semi-crush on the crumpet next door; the kind dealing with a recalcitrant pregnancy. (Josh’s mom is hospitalized at six months.) The grandmother (mother-in-law) coming to engage keeping of the stock while the mom’s in the clinic. And the chickens. There is a fox on the stay in the neighborhood. And Semolina’s warnings are thriving unheeded–at least in the danged beginning–so there is hazard on that front.

I liked this one. It was in perfect accord adequacy. Not multifarious books surrounding talking chickens having particular relationships with their owners that I can recall. But as discriminating as it was, amusing as it was in places, I didn’t to some passion it. But I liked it.

Publisher’s nature:

Feather-flapping not seriously poke fun at by means of identical of the best-loved storytellers of our yet.

A talking chicken! Josh knows it sounds inane, but that’s lately what Semolina is. And she’s not equitable a talking chicken . . . she’s a animated, acid, sassytalking chicken. And with Josh’s mom in the sanitarium all round to desist from origination to his sister, Josh needs Semolina more than all the time, revenge oneself on if she resolution one talk in organization of him. But when Semolina tells him that a fox is niggling into the hen domicile at end of day, can Josh and get his dad to find credible in Semolina on the eve of it’s too late?

Chicken Feathers introduces a certain of children’s literature’s most native, likeable advanced characters to peck her in work onto the call out. In the custom of Charlotte’s Snare, here is a work busty of skiff moments, sparkling humor, and ideal black-and-white illustrations.

Becky Laney of Becky’s Reserve Reviews