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How to Talk Like a Chicken: 09/30/24

How to Talk Like a Chicken

How to Talk Like a Chicken by Charlie Grandy and Alex G. Griffiths (Illustrator) is a picture book about the intricacies of chicken language as taught by a rooster in pants to you, the unnamed reader.

Chicken language is difficult because it not only involves a lot of clucking, peeping, and bwoking but also feather ruffling and tail waggling. Hidden in the errors on the reader's part is the set up for a delightful end of book brick joke.

Interestingly, the reader apparently already knows some key chicken phrases. That knowledge comes in handy at the end of the day when a predator comes on scene.

The reader gets to save the day by alerting everyone on the farm (and one other unexpected character) to the danger so that they can help save the day.

The illustrations are a little rough but the entire book is high energy. The off model chickens work with the larger than life text and the silliness of some of things one can say in chicken language.

Five stars

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