Washoe County Library System

An introduction to the physical characteristics, behavior, and different breeds of chickens.

Earl and Pearl do not want Chicken's help in the garden, until a swarm of grasshoppers arrives and her true talent shines.

A retelling of the cummulative folktale in which a silly chicken and her barnyard friends run around shouting that the sky is falling.

When a crazy chicken wreaks havoc in the kitchen there is just one thing to do--prepare a nest so that she will settle down. A restless little chicken is flap, flap, flapping her way through a kitchen. But why is she there? What could she be looking for? Follow the excitement and find out all the little reasons that have driven this chicken to peck and pick and poke!

When his father brings him some new word puzzles, Word Bird makes up more words with his friend Hen. Each word that they make up leads them into a new activity.

"In this book, Henrietta the Chicken reveals how readers should go about choosing chickens, what supplies they will need, how to make a new chicken feel at home, and how to properly care for chickens, including feeding, exercising, and keeping a chicken coop clean. Text is accompanied by clear, labeled photographs to further reinforce key concepts, and the use of an animal narrator also allows the book to be used to teach perspective--

Describes what happens day-by-day for the three weeks from the time a hen lays an egg until the baby chick hatches. Read and find out all about eggs -- and how baby chicks grow inside of them. Learn how chicks develop,how they get the food they need to grow, and how a mother hen helps keep them safe in this simple introduction to the life cycle of a baby chick.

Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale.

The fluffy, fearless Chicken Squad detectives are determined to find out who the new addition is in their yard, so, equipped with the latest surveillance gear, the chicks venture into the wild to get answers.