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Count Your Chickens
  • Published: 3 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9780735267138
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Board Book
  • Pages: 24
  • RRP: $22.99

Count Your Chickens

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EBook
7 Feb 2017
Hardback
15 May 2017
Board Book
3 Mar 2020
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Count the chickens having their feathered fun at the county fair! Richard Scarry fans will delight in this board book's search-and-find elements, gentle humor and cute-as-a-button chickens.

For fans of Richard Scarry, a cute-as-a-button picture book featuring dozens of chickens as they set out for the county fair!

Chickens, chickens everywhere -- going to the county fair! Follow a family of chickens as they prepare for their big outing. You'll see chickens wondering what to wear, baking pies, painting their toes and knitting socks. A stroll through town reveals that everyone else is excited for the festivities too. There are so many sights to see! Over there we see racers sprinting to the finish line. Over here, farmers showing off their best crops. Clowns, entertainers and musicians take the stage. And don't forget the rides: the Ferris wheel, super slide and merry-go-round. Grab some cotton candy and popcorn, because this very silly book will entertain and challenge young readers with searching and counting elements.
  • Published: 3 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9780735267138
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Board Book
  • Pages: 24
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the authors

Jo Ellen Bogart

Jo Ellen Bogart is the author of many best-selling children’s books, including Jeremiah Learns to Read, Daniel’s Dog, and Gifts. She has degrees in elementary education and psychology from the University of Texas, and she now writes full time. Jo Ellen has won the Ruth Schwartz Award and has been shortlisted for the Mr. Christie’s Book Award. Her first book for Tundra was a biography of Maud Lewis called Capturing Joy: The Story of Maud Lewis. Born in Houston, Texas, she now lives in a pet-filled home in Guelph, Ontario.
JEB

Lori Joy Smith

LORI JOY SMITH is an illustrator and fine artist whose work has been exhibited in galleries across Canada and the United States. Her illustrations have appeared on greeting cards and in Chirp, American Girl, Teen and Today's Parent magazines, among other places. Lori has illustrated several picture books including Count Your Chickens by Jo Ellen Bogart, Run Salmon Run by Bobs & LoLo and My Canada by Katherine Dearlove. She has written and illustrated two picture books called, We Adopted a Baby Lamb and We Adopted a Baby Chick. Lori enjoys knitting, drawing and sewing. She lives with her family in Prince Edward Island, along with a growing menagerie of pets — three cats, two bunnies, one dog and two sheep.
LJS

Praise for Count Your Chickens

PRAISE FOR Count Your Chickens:

"Unfolding in short, bouncy rhymes, this atypical counting book fills its pages with a flock of chickens enjoying a day at the county fair . . . There is so much feathered fun here, it's pure poultry in motion." --Kirkus Reviews

"Reminiscent of the work of Richard Scarry, the spreads will encourage children to go back and pore over the illustrations, not only to count the chickens but also to track the many characters--including a pair of mice who appear on every page . . . An enjoyable concept and seek-and-find title that's perfect for springtime sharing and reinforcement of counting skills." --School Library Journal

"There is endless counting to be done here . . . Count Your Chickens is a perfect lap book or something for an individual child to spend time with." --CM Magazine

"Less a storybook and more of an immersive experience that delights in small details a la Richard Scarry." --Fresh Press

"The impressive rhyming text is matched with colorful, detailed illustrations . . . in bright, breezy and humorous spreads that will have young readers paying very close attention to the many opportunities for counting presented." --Sal's Fiction Addiction