CHICKY CHICKY CHOOK CHOOK
By Cathy MacLennan
Boxer Books, 2007
Category: Picture book
Remember the pile of birthday books for my soon-to-be-two niece? I needed a fifth and you all gave me some great suggestions. Thank you, thank you. All of them are on my list and several will surely be in her book piles in years to come. But I came across CHICKY CHICKY CHOOK CHOOK this week and I simply couldn’t resist.
“Chicky, chicky, chook chook.
Chick, chick chick.
Chicky, chicky, chook chook,
Peck … peck … pick.”
Oh, yes. I can imagine our Little Miss rollicking to this one. Yes. Yes. Yes. The illustrations, like the onomatopoeic text, are jaunty and fun. Rhythm, art, a simple and relevant plot … this is pure read-aloud fun for the toddler set, and just what I needed to round out the 2007 Birthday Booklist.