A Hen, a Chick and a String Guitar
Author:
Illustrator:
Margaret Read MacDonald
Sophie Fatus
Inspired by a Chilean folktale, this rollicking chant-along tale is a delight for young children. "Grandma gave me a clucking white hen. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck! Cluck! Cluck! ... One day that hen gave me a chick! I had a hen. And I had a chick. Ay! Ay! Ay! Ay! Ay! How I loved my two little pets." As the animals arrive two by two, the story adds them up...ending with 16 pets! Thus a counting/adding book, a baby animal names book, and a just plain fun to chant story. Includes a CD composed, sung and played on guitar by Bob King.
US paperback edition is re-issued under title Farmyard Jamboree
Categories
Children's Books: Picture Books
Languages: Swedish
Story origins: Chile
Singing Tales
Story origins: Norwegian
Languages: Finnish
Editions
Paperback
2005
Barefoot Books
1-905236-20-4
Hardcover
2005
Barefoot Books UK
32 pages
1-84148-795-3
Hardcover
2005
Barefoot Books
32 pages
1-84148-796-1
Quotes
A must have...I used it in my library with lst and 2nds grade students and they loved it! By the end of the book everyone was swaying and singing along with the music. Moooo!
Kathy L. Simpkins, New Jersey
Warning: This Chilean folktale-inspired read-aloud (and song) will have preschoolers oinking and mooing 'til the cows come home. ...Opportunities for a barnyard ruckus abound here. ...The colorful, folk-art style of the acrylic and pastel paintings echoe
Kirkus
Storytellers will respond eagerly to the opportunity to try this one out on a crowd, and young listeners will likely beg for a second round.
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
This is a really uplifting book. It is basically a counting book but with a difference--it is all done to music.
Reading Time, Vol 49, No. 3
Awards
Kansas Reading Circle Cat 2006
Best Books for Children
7th ed.
Children's Cat 19th ed.