Chicks! (Step into Reading) - Softcover

Horning, Sandra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307932214 ISBN 13: 9780307932211

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers, 2013

Synopsis

When a family brings home chicks from a local farm, they must do everything they can to make sure their feathered friends thrive in their new environment. With the help of their knowledgeable parents, the children provide the baby chicks with food, water, warmth, and proper shelter. Young readers will chirp along happily page after page, learning to read as they watch the fuzzy little chicks grow into downy adult chickens, who will eventually lay eggs of their own!

Step 1 readers have big type and easy words, rhyme and rhythm, and picture clues, for children who know the alphabet and are ready to read.

About this title

About the Author:

Chicks! is SANDRA HORNING's second book with Random House, following her critically acclaimed picturebook, The Giant Hug, which was a Junior Library Guild selection and an IRA-CBC Children’s Choice. Sandra lives in Connecticut with her husband and children. You can visit her online at sandrahorning.com.

JON GOODELL is the acclaimed illustrator of A Mouse Called Wolf; Zigazak!; Andiamo, Weasel!; Mother, Mother, I Want Another!; and Mice Are Nice. 

From Booklist:

This latest title from the Step into Reading series provides emerging readers with a brief introduction to poultry culture. A family drives to a farm and purchases chicks, which they raise in a brooder. As the chicks grow, they graduate to an outside coop. Eventually some of them lay eggs in nest boxes, providing new chicks for the brooder. Goodell’s realistic artwork depicts cooperative parents and children working together on this venture. The illustrations carefully anticipate the succinct prose (one page depicts Dad giving the farmer a check, while the text reads, “We buy chicks”), making this ideal as a predictable text. Horning does not discuss chick anatomy or physiology, and no mention is made of selling or eating eggs or chickens; she also eschews naming both chicks and humans, almost giving this the feel of nonfiction. Readers wishing to learn more about this topic may appreciate Amy E. Sklansky’s Where Do Chicks Come From? (2005). Preschool-Grade 1. --Weisman, Kay

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0307932214
• ISBN 13: 9780307932211
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Goodell Jon