Little Red Chicken has a problem. She gets excited and interrupts the bedtime stories her papa reads to her. She just has to warn the characters . Will she ever stop interrupting and go to sleep?
What I thought: What a great book! I love Little Red Chicken. She's spunky and quite right. Why shouldn't she warn the characters. (Interesting idea: what if the stories didn't end after Little Red Chicken warned the book characters?) The illustrations are very nice. (Well, you know this book did receive a Caldecott Honor.) I love the saturated colors and lack of visible lines. My favorite illustration is when Little Red Chicken sees her papa has fallen asleep. I liked this book so much that I've compiled a list of other interrupting books with the help of the great PUBYAC subscribers. I'm looking forward to adding this story time to my fall schedule.
Story Time Themes: Interruptions, Chickens, Bedtime
(Candlewick, 2010)
I thought this was a cute book, but the kids almost need to have background knowledge of the folk tale characters depicted before reading to fully appreciate the story.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't thought about that. The characters are so familiar to me as an adult. In that case, I could use it first during a fractured fairy tale story time then in an interruptions themed story time.
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