The best thing about this story is definitely the art work. The story is cute though. It is about seven little baby chicks learning how to survive in the barnyard. I see this book as one that a parent reads to a child or a teacher or library would read to a class. The children would love looking at the pictures and also the story seems meant to be read aloud. It has different noises the reader would make (Hussshhhhhh, Cockadoodle-DOO! Bucka-buk! Peep peep) and also different moments where the author uses … to express a dramatic pause in the reading. This is not a book I see myself using with older students or sharing with adults but I can see having fun sharing it with a child.

Seven little hens are born and then walk out into the barnyard. They do not know which things are dangerous or just curious. Unfortunately, the book just introduces the chicks to dangerous things. ( )