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O'Malley, Kevin

Gimme Cracked Corn & I Will Share

32 pp. | Walker | September, 2007 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8027-9684-4 $16.95 | Library ISBN 978-0-8027-9685-1 $17.85

(2) K-3 Chicken dreams of a barn with all the corn any chicken could want. His friend George thinks Chicken is yolking, but decides to go along to look. This corny story will tickle many a funny bone, eggsactly its intention. Elegantly bucolic and ironically decorous pen and watercolor illustrations add to the lunacy; conversation balloons show the characters cracking jokes at will.

Reviewer: Betty Carter | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2008