Interrupting Chicken: Cookies for Breakfast Hardcover – Picture Book, November 9, 2021 by David Ezra Stein

Description

Author: Stein David Ezra

Color: Multicolor

Format: Picture Book

Package Dimensions: 10x279x467

Number Of Pages: 40

Release Date: 09-11-2021

Details: Product Description

In her latest star turn, the little red chicken from the Caldecott Honor Book Interrupting Chicken is hungry—and sillier than ever.

It’s bright and early on a Saturday morning, and the little red chicken wants cookies for breakfast. What better way to persuade Papa than by jarring him awake and gleefully interjecting cookies—and herself!—into every nursery rhyme they read together? Though the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe heartily endorses the little red chicken’s plan, Papa has his own idea for a sweet breakfast for his determined daughter. Featuring the same riotous charm and bright, bold art as
Interrupting Chicken and
Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise,
David Ezra Stein’s third installment will have any fan with a sweet tooth and a love of meta rhyme clamoring to find out: will the early bird get the cookie?

From School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 1-The small red chicken (first spied in Interrupting Chicken) who stars in Stein’s book so closely mirrors the behavior of preschoolers that it will be hard for listeners not to nod along in recognition. Papa is awakened early by his young charge, who snuggles in with a book of nursery rhymes and makes the case for the cookies for breakfast in bed. Thus, “C is for cookies,” as in Vitamin C, and “Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack-” breaks off to the interrupting chicken’s version: “Brought me some cookies when I was sick!” Papa patiently debates, despite exhaustion, why they cannot have cookies for breakfast, or for lunch, but Chicken is adamant and, through drawings and wordplay, gets his way-with pancakes. It’s all but impossible to resist these arguments, and story hours may need to include cookies for hungry participants. Comedic timing, characters’ faces, and Chicken’s persistence are a master class in interruption; Stein doesn’t miss a beat. VERDICT Logic-defying retorts aside, this essential addition is a snug and hilarious version of quality time and the worthiness of a good argument.-Kimberly Olson Fakih, School Library Journalα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Review

Comedic timing, characters’ faces, and Chicken’s persistence are a master class in interruption; Stein doesn’t miss a beat. . . . Logic-defying retorts aside, this essential addition is a snug and hilarious version of quality time and the worthiness of a good argument.
—School Library Journal (starred review)

A sweet and silly read for any time of day.
—Kirkus Reviews

The ‘Interrupting Chicken’ books won’t lull any child to sleep—the pace is too jangly and jumpy for that—but they do tend to delight 4- to 8-year-olds, especially those with a tendency to butt in.
—The Wall Street Journal

About the Author

David Ezra Stein is the author-illustrator of many picture books, including
Leaves,
winner of an Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award;
Interrupting Chicken, a Caldecott Honor Book; and
Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise. He lives in Kew Gardens, New York.