The Chicken House: Ready-to-Read Level 2

by Doreen Cronin, Stephen Gilpin (Illustrator)

Overview

Now an animated series on Disney Junior!

The Chicken Squad is back for their next (mis)adventure, and this time they’re in the doghouse in this Level 2 Ready-to-Read from the bestselling author of Click, Clack, Moo.

Meet the chickens who live in the chicken house: Sugar, Dirt, Sweetie, Poppy, and their mother, Moosh. Such a big family makes it crowded in the chicken house, so the chicks like to spend time next door with JJ the dog in his doghouse. They know just how to make themselves feel right at home!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534487055
Publisher:	Simon Spotlight
Publication date:	08/31/2021
Series:	Chicken Squad Series
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	217,001
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 5.80(h) x 0.13(d)
Lexile:	AD480L (what's this?)
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

Doreen Cronin is the author of many bestselling and New York Times bestselling picture books, including Click, Clack, Quack to School!; Click, Clack, Surprise!; Click, Clack, Ho, Ho, Ho; Click, Clack, Peep; Click, Clack, Boo!; Dooby Dooby Moo; Thump, Quack, Moo: A Whacky Adventure; Bounce; Wiggle; Duck for President; Giggle, Giggle, Quack; Bloom; and the Caldecott Honor Book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type as well as The Chicken Squad series and Cyclone. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her at DoreenCronin.com.

Stephen Gilpin graduated from the NYC School of Visual Arts where he studied painting and cartooning. He is the illustrator of the Who Shrunk Daniel Funk series and The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy series. Stephen currently lives in Hiawatha, Kansas. Visit him at SGilpin.com.

Editorial Reviews

10/01/2021

PreS-Gr 1—In "The Chicken Squad" series for beginning readers, an A-frame, or "triangle house," is home for a chicken family, including Sugar, whose bookish sister Dirt likes to sit by the window to read. There are many of them, and the triangle house is crowded. The dog, J.J., lives in a square house, which Sugar likes better because it has a bathtub (the dog's dish) and a massage table (the rubber bone). But it's boring to visit it alone, so Sugar invites her siblings along. Mother chicken Moosh, facing an empty home, enlists the dog to help find her family. While J.J. is not down with the feathers in his water bowl, he does like the new drawings the chicks have made on his wall. The use of repetition in this book gives it a flowing, reinforcing cadence, and the illustrations are delightful—every chick has personality that hooks new readers into their activities. J.J. the dog, though, seems genuinely concerned about the new residents—will new art be enough? VERDICT This is more of a shaggy chicken tale than a solid story with a beginning, middle, and end, but it will keep readers involved.—Kimberly Olson Fakih, School Library Journal

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