Interrupting Chicken
Candlewick Press · Print & ebook · July 11, 2016
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- Who it’s for
- Familiar fairy tales meet a lively bedtime exchange, with interruptions doing much of the comic work.
- Themes
- Bedtime storytelling, Interrupting, Rescuing characters in classic tales
- Genres
- Folktale Retellings, Funny Stories, Bird Stories
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A New York Times bestseller! “The delivery is Catskill perfect; readers will fall hard for the antics of this hapless pair.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) It’s time for the little red chicken’s bedtime story — and a reminder from Papa to try not to interrupt. But the chicken can’t help herself! Whether the tale is Hansel and Gretel or Little Red Riding Hood or even Chicken Little, she jumps into the story to save its hapless characters.
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Now it’s the little red chicken’s turn to tell a story, but will her yawning papa make it to the end without his own kind of interrupting?
Bedtime, Interrupted
Familiar fairy tales meet a lively bedtime exchange, with interruptions doing much of the comic work.
Come here for
- A playful twist on Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood
- Bedtime banter between an eager storyteller and a yawning listener
Expect
- A story-within-a-story rhythm
- A gentle tussle over who gets to tell the tale
Where it sits
| Bird Stories | 47% |
|---|---|
| Folktale Retellings | 35% |
| Funny Stories | 35% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Farm Animal Stories
- Bedtime & Dreams
- Folktale Retellings
- Authors
- David Ezra Stein
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Published
- July 11, 2016
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Bedtime storytelling · Interrupting · Rescuing characters in classic tales
- Reading lane
- Farm Animal Stories