Shelly Hen Lays Eggs

by Deborah Chancellor, Julia Groves (Illustrator)

Overview

Follow Shelly Hen as she scurries about her coop, plays in the grass, and lays eggs in this stylish and fact-filled picture book, part of the Follow My Food series that looks at the ways different foods are produced.

White, brown, blue–eggs come in all kinds of colors. Every egg we eat comes from a bird, typically a hen like Shelly. Shelly Hen Lays Eggs is a simple but effective way to show children (and adults!) the daily life of a free-range hen, where eggs come from, and the labor involved in getting eggs from the farm to the table Featuring attractive collage-style art, the book also includes different species of birds and their different kinds of eggs, a simple recipe using eggs, and more information about chickens.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781662670718
Publisher:	Astra Publishing House
Publication date:	07/16/2024
Series:	Follow My Food
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Deborah Chancellor is the author of more than 100 books for children and young adults. Her books cover a range of topics from educational to biographies to cookbooks. Her work has been shortlisted for several honors, including the Little Rebels Award and the Gourmand World Cookbook Award.

Julia Groves is an illustrator with a focus on cut-paper and printmaking illustrations for children's books. Her first book Rainforest received a Banks Street Outstanding Merit, made the New York Times Best Books of the Year list, and was long-listed for the Cogan Biodiversity Picture Book.

Editorial Reviews

"From hens to fried eggs: where our food comes from.... (w)ith appealing stylized illustrations and a relatively simple text... appropriately simple and effective."—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2024-04-05
From hens to fried eggs: where our food comes from.

Even very young children often know that eggs come from chickens. With appealing stylized illustrations and a relatively simple text, Chancellor and Groves explain how it happens. The opening scene introduces a child with brown skin and curly brown hair who holds Shelly Hen, a free-range chicken. The young narrator describes Shelly’s daily activities. In the farmyard, Shelly takes a dust bath, searches for bugs, and chatters with the other chickens in her flock. At night, she has the top spot on the shelves in the coop. In the early morning, the chickens all troop over to their nesting boxes and lay eggs before going outside again. A blond-haired, pale-skinned farmer, shown on the title page, provides supplemental food and water, while the child helps by collecting the eggs from the cleverly designed nest boxes. The child’s reward is a very fresh fried egg snack! The front endpapers feature colorful eggs in their shells; closing endpapers show the fried eggs. The backmatter includes a matching game, more information on hens and on the eggs of other birds, and an easy recipe for a two-egg scramble. On a final page, the author reveals that eggs can hatch chicks, but “for this to happen a hen must meet a rooster.”

Appropriately simple and effective. (Informational picture book. 3-7)

Kirkus Reviews