The runaway chicken

Format:

Book

Title:

The runaway chicken

Author:

Thorpe, Kiki author

ISBN:

9781575659916

9781635920123

Publication:

New York : Kane Press, 2018.

Physical Description:

31 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series title(s):

Makers make it work.

Summary:

Maddy finds a chicken crossing a city street and, after trying to find her owner, comes up with a way to build her a coop.

Reading Level:

Grades K-3.

Subject(s):

Chickens -- Juvenile fiction.

Building -- Juvenile fiction.

City and town life -- Juvenile fiction.

Chickens -- Fiction.

Building -- Fiction.

City and town life -- Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Juvenile works.

Added Author:

Diaz, Maine

Holds:

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Tying into the popular Makers Movement, Makers Make it Work is a series of fun easy-to-read stories that focus on problem-solving and hands-on action. With bright, eye-catching art and explanatory sidebars with additional information on the topic, these books show kids how to use their hands, their heads, their creativity, and their problem-solving skills to overcome every challenge facing them.

There's a chicken on the loose! Maddy takes it home, but chickens are not good house pets. Can Maddy find-or make!-a better place to keep it?With the Makers Make It Work series, any kid can be a Maker!Each book also includes an activity for young makers to try themselves. (Topic- Woodworking)

Author Notes

Kiki Thorpe was born in Agaña, Guam and grew up in Boise, Idaho. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Arizona.

She has written or adapted over fifty books for children. A former children's book editor, she now writes full time and her works include: Ah-Choo!, A Comfy Cozy Thanksgiving, and Bear in the Big Blue House. She is the author of The Never Girls series, and has written some of the Disney Fairies chapter books series including: The Trouble with Tink, Tink North of Never Land, and Tink in a Fairy Fix.

Kiki also writes the Candy Apple, and Poison Apple books under the name Mimi Mccoy.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Horn Book Review

In each of these early-reader stories, the main character learns a makerspace skill--woodworking, robotics, 3D printing, and baking--to solve a problem. If the child's first effort fails, he or she persists to achieve success. The various illustrations (by different artists) are serviceable and the stories are fairly engaging, but kids will likely be more interested in the included hands-on activities. Useful for early-elementary classrooms and makerspaces. [Review covers these Makers Make It Work titles: Double or Nothing, The Color Day Coach, Robot to the Rescue, and The Runaway Chicken.] (c) Copyright 2019. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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