But a chicken promising to be good and then jumping out and making her dad mad is funny in itself. It helps if a child knows about these stories. Was it important to choose stories you thought children would know well?Ī good book works on many levels. When Papa says to his little red chicken, “And of course, you are not going to interrupt the story tonight, are you?” you let us know that the feathered hero may have broken into the story once or twice before. When we get to the actual text, we are ready for the present story to begin. Our brains are filling in gaps like mad at this stage. We can almost hear the echoes of the little chicken as she told her dad all kinds of things, all the while spilling pasta everywhere. An enthusiastic chicken and her dad had dinner together. We can imagine what happened just before we came upon the story. We see that the papa is rather formal and that his stately, old-fashioned home has apparently been “accessorized” with a child’s paraphernalia. All the details in the title-page art speak volumes about the house and who lives there. We liked all the details in the picture before the story starts, the “title page.” Are these clues to the little red chicken’s energetic personality?
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