Chicken in Charge by Adam Lehrhaupt, Shahar Kober
Published by HarperCollins on March 5th 2019
ISBN: 0062364251
Pages: 32
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Chicken Zoey is back in this Level 1 easy reader for new readers.  Zoey has made herself in charge of caring for the new lambs on the farm.  Dinner, bath and bed is the plan.  Dinner becomes pie because “Everyone likes pie”.  Baths become a “muddy puddle” with a roll in the hay to dry off.  Zoey beds them down in a “nest” and reads them Lehrhaupt’s 2016 book “Chicken in Space”.  Kober’s illustrations provide clues of the action and enhance the simple three and four sentence texts with barnyard animal reactions.  Envision Amelia Bedelia in chicken form to fully appreciate the humor and comic timing that Lehrhaupt and Kober have provided.  The binding is sturdy which will be necessary for Chicken Zoey fans’repeat readings.

Reviewed by Sheila Dube, Springvale Public Library