Chick Lit: Kids Books about Chickens

The Chicken Book Selection

We've been slowly collecting children's books about chickens and eggs. Mr. Joe really loves the chickens and he's into any book that features his favorite feathered friends. Half Price Books is pretty awesome and I actually found a couple of these books on the $2 cart.

The Problem with Chickens - a beautiful, simple story that Joe loves.

Hedgie's Surprise - Lots of people love Jan Brett books. The illustrations are very detailed and we can sit and pick out extra things in the borders for a long time.

 Busy Chickens - A simple photo story about chickens. Several chickens look like our ladies and Joey likes to pick out the "matchers".

Henry and Kelly recently gave Joey Chicken Said, "Cluck!"He digs it.

We also read First the Egg, The Little Red Hen, Cock-a-doodle-whoo, and Chick.

Lots of teaching philosophies advocate regular rotation of books so that kids don't get bored and can make connections across a theme. While I don't pretend to be an expert in early childhood development, this idea makes a lot of sense to me. Right now, we have the chicken books, a selection of books about the ocean, and books about trains. More than one simple theme, but it works for us.