One Little Chicken: A Counting Book

Illustrator: Ethan Long
ISBN: 9780823419838
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: September 2007
Publisher: Holiday House, Inc.
Age Range: 3 to 6

One chicken twirls like a top.

Two chickens do the bunny hop.

Chickens everywhere are breaking out into dance. Count—and boogie—up to ten, and join the feathery fun, as chickens shake, shimmy, and samba till the cows come home. This whimsical counting book, featuring snappy verse and hilarious art, is sure to have young readers dancing in their seats.

AWARDS & ACCOLADES
"Terpsichore-inspired poultry drive this genial counting book...a dancing chicken is always good for a giggle, and very young readers will undoubtedly appreciate the direct order, proffered at book's end, to get up and dance with the rest of the henhouse "till the cows come home." " --Publishers Weekly

"Plump poultry take to the dance floor as a rhyming text helps young readers count from 1 to 10. The fowls' faces are wonderfully expressive-a haughty ballerina with closed eyes and down-turned mouth contrasts with the seven gleeful birds that "get up and bump and grind."...these birds are having a great time, and youngsters will want to "get up and shake a leg" and join the fun." --School Library Journal

SOMETHING YOU DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS BOOK
The idea for this book came from a joke. Q: What do you call dancing chickens? A: Poultry in motion. (Now, that’s my kind of humor.)