Name: Interrupting Chicken
ISBN: 9780763689032

At a Glance

Why This Clicks

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

Book Details

Authors: David Ezra Stein
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: July 11, 2016
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Farm Animal Stories · Bird Stories
Reading lane: Farm Animal Stories

Affinity

Publisher Categories

Farm Animal Stories
Bedtime & Dreams
Folktale Retellings

About This Book

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. Now it’s the little red chicke...

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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. 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?