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Kelley, Ellen A.

My Life as a Chicken

40 pp. | Harcourt | May, 2007 | Trade ISBN 978-0-15-205306-2 $16.00
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Michael Slack. Chicken Pauline Poulet, hip to Farmer's plan to turn her into dinner, describes her dramatic escape and adventures aboard a pirate ship, a hot-air balloon, etc. The faultless rhymes ("I ride the kite, / cling and swing, / wilted, wounded, / weak of wing") have great read-aloud potential, but the mixed-media illustrations and epic nature of Pauline's telling are too winkingly self-aware.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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