Interrupting Chicken

Awarded a 2011 Caldecott Honor! A favorite joke inspires this New York Times best-selling tale, in which a little chicken's habit of interrupting bedtime stories is gleefully turned on its head.

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 from doing some dangerous or silly thing. 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? Energetically illustrated with glowing colors--and offering humorous story-within-a-story views--this all-too-familiar tale is sure to amuse (and hold the attention of ) spirited little chicks.

Author: David Ezra Stein
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 08/10/2010
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1lbs
Size: 8.70h x 10.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780763641689
Audience: Ages 4-8

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 2.2
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 138242 / Interrupting Chicken


Award: Caldecott Medal - Honor Book
Award: Cybils - Winner
Award: Golden Kite - Honor Book
Award: Kentucky Bluegrass Award - Nominee
Award: Georgia Children's Book Award - Nominee
Award: Buckeye Children's Book Award - Nominee
Award: Buckaroo Book Award - Nominee
Award: Colorado Children's Book Award - Nominee
Award: Grand Canyon Reader Award - Nominee
Award: North Carolina Children's Book Award - Nominee
Award: Volunteer State Book Awards - Runner-Up
Award: Ladybug Picture Book Award - Nominee
Award: Delaware Diamonds Award - Nominee
Award: Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award - Second Place
Award: Nevada Young Readers' Award - Nominee
Award: Monarch Award - Third Place
Award: Golden Archer Award - Nominee
Award: Young Hoosier Book Award - Nominee
Award: California Young Reader Medal - Nominee
Award: Arkansas Diamond Primary Book Award - Winner
Award: Florida Children's Book Award - Winner
Award: Golden Sower Award - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2011 pg. 47
Publishers Weekly 07/19/2010
School Library Journal 07/01/2010 pg. 69
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2010 pg. 630
Booklist 09/15/2010 pg. 69

About the Author
David Ezra Stein is an author-illustrator whose previous books include Leaves, winner of an Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. He lives in Kew Gardens, New York.