Have you ever wondered what a chicken would buy if they could go shopping? Maybe you have or maybe you haven’t, but in this imaginative book, the author makes some suggestions about just what a chicken might buy if they could go to stores and shop like we do. And the colorful illustrations make the book come to life.
Although we all know that it is impossible for a chicken to push around a shopping cart—I’m pretty sure that even little ones know this—imagining a mama chicken all dressed up to go shopping with her little chicks following along behind her is rather fun. Would her chicks misbehave and grab random items off the shelves? Would they run unattended around the store? Maybe they would play a game of tag or hide-and-seek. The book will bring out the creativity in your children as they come up with even more suggestions on what a chicken would buy or how the little chicks who tagged along would occupy themselves in the store while their mother shopped.
After all the fun of imagining what a mama chicken and her young ones would do in a store, it’s time to learn the beneficial things this farmyard bird does besides lay eggs. One thing it does is eat garden pests. I didn’t know that, so this book taught me something!
Once the story is done, there’s a list of nine did-you-know facts about chickens. And as a bonus, there is a picture of a chicken for you or your children to color. If you want to see who can make their chicken the most colorful, you could scan the picture and print copies, one for each of you to color.
I was sent a copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review. If you would like to purchase this book for that special young one in your life, I’ve provided an Amazon link below.
Amazon Link: If a Chicken Could Shop
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A chicken does more than lay eggs for food.
Our feathered friends can love. And that’s just the start.
About the Author:
Award-winning humor author/award-winning children’s author Debbie Roppolo grew up in the Blackland Prairie region of Texas, where miles of grassland and her horse stimulated very imaginative adventures and served as writing fodder for later years. She had to do something with those memories; having tea parties with chickens was too good to keep to herself.
She has written for several of the Chicken Soup books in addition to various magazines and newspapers. Her children’s book titles include Amelia Frump and her Peanut Butter-Loving, Overactive Imagination; Amelia Frump…is Cooking Up a Peanut Butter Storm (award-winning activity/cookbook); and He’s My Brother.
