"It was his first year," the book opens, the only text on our first double-page spread, showing us a bear on his little island of the forest with its dominant grassy greens and browns and a bit of yellow from the sun. This is a lovely little poem of a picture book (or, as the Publishers Weekly review put it in their starred review, more like a "haiku-like shape," praising Stein for his willingness to let the story assume that form) all about the wonder of the ever-changing seasons and nature as viewed by an innocent, rather new-to-this-world bear. If you would like to buy this book on Amazon, click here.Today’s review of another picture book comes from Jules of Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast. Pros: Fans of the first Caldecott-honored Interrupting Chicken will no doubt enjoy some chuckles as they revisit Little Chicken and her patient, loving father.Ĭons: The premise of the interrupting chicken felt a little tired to me in this one.Ī copy of this book was provided to me by Candlewick. Dad is still awake at the end of this story on the last page, Little Chicken asks him for help with her math homework. The illustrations for the stories are a bit more dignified, with paler colors and classic-looking characters the elephant and Little Chicken herself appear in the stories in the style of the rest of the book.
Just like in Interrupting Chicken, the father reads a classic fairy tale, and his daughter interrupts, inserting herself and the elephant. So in each story her father reads to her, she is on the lookout for that elephant. This time, Little Chicken has been told by her teacher that every story has an element of surprise….only she heard this as an elephant of surprise.
Summary: The little red chicken and her father are back with their bedtime story routine.
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