Boys and girls will flock to Warren, a quirky chicken who wants to find his inner greatness.
Warren, a bespectacled chicken, is bored with the everyday chicken routine: peck, cluck, feed; peck, cluck, feed. Same old, same old. There must be more to life, no? And there must be more to Warren. He leaves the farm to discover what makes him special—and with the help of an unhatched egg and a snarky, hungry rat, he just might get some answers.
Filled with simple text, speech balloons, and engaging illustrations, this easy-to-follow story is a blend between a picture book and a chapter book, making it an ideal bridge for independent readers.
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Bespectacled Warren is bored by his fellow chicks, who only peck chick feed and peep. He strikes out looking for adventure to prove how extraordinary he really is, and in the course of six chapters, he finds a conniving rat, an egg he adopts as his superhero sidekick, and definitive proof that he is no ordinary chicken at all. Dillard allows her clever tale to unfold in both sentences and cartoon panels. This combined approach amplifies Warren’s wry observations of his surroundings and peers, such as the egg, the rat, a duck, and a hungry fox. The brightly hued illustrations depict a wide variety of emotion and clever props, like the fox’s suspicious chicken cookbook and the duck’s coaching whistle, which looks remarkably like his own hat. There’s even a bilingual pun, along with a handful of silly food jokes. The simple text, usually only appearing in one or two sentences, is easy enough for beginning readers. Warren has all the imagination of Rebecca Purcell’s Super Chicken! (2013) but with some added sly sophistication, too. Grades 2-4. --Francisca Goldsmith
About the Author
Sarah Dillard studied art at Wheaton College and illustration at Rhode Island School of Design. She lives with her husband in Waitsfield, Vermont.
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Product information
Publisher
Aladdin (February 11, 2014)
Language
English
Hardcover
64 pages
ISBN-10
1442453400
ISBN-13
978-1442453401
Reading age
6 - 9 years
Lexile measure
GN510L
Grade level
1 - 4
Item Weight
11.2 ounces
Dimensions
6.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches
Best Sellers Rank
#1,386,413 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#2,196 in Children''s Superhero Fiction
#2,470 in Children''s Farm Animal Books (Books)
#9,103 in Children''s Chapter Books (Books)
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