Chick Out Some of the Library's Chick Books!

Across the stream EASY GIN
A hen and three chicks are saved from a bad dream by a duck and three ducklings.

al-Daj¯ajah al-sagh¯irah al-hamr¯a' J 492.7 MCQ
Little red hen. Arabic.

Baby birds : growing and flying J 598.139 GAR
Describes how birds mate, how chicks develop inside the eggs, how eggs hatch, and how different baby birds grow and learn to fend for themselves.

Barnyard in your backyard : a beginner's guide to raising chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits, goats, sheep, and cattle 636 BAR

Beauty and the beaks : a turkey's cautionary tale EASY AUC
When Lance, a very pretentious turkey, arrives on the farm and boasts that he is the only bird invited to a special feast, no hen is impressed, but when Beauty learns that Lance is the main course, she convinces the others to save him.

Big egg EASY COX
A mother hen wakes up one morning to find a gigantic egg among the others in her nest and goes in search of the egg's origin.

The big game EASY DIS
Chicken Little steps up to the plate to show everyone what he's really made of.

Bob EASY PEA
While looking for someone to teach him how to crow, a rooster learns to sound like many different animals and finds that his new skills come in handy.

Buck-Buck the chicken EASY EHR
Nancy's pet chicken Buck-Buck has trouble learning to act like an ordinary chicken.

Busy chickens B.B. SCH

C is for Coco B.B. TAN
Coco the chicken teaches children the alphabet in this illustrated, rhyming book.

A chick called Saturday EASY DUN
A curious chick is disappointed at all the things his mother says he cannot do, such as swim like a duck, until he discovers one wonderful thing he can do very well.

Chick-napped! J KEE
When the newly hatched chicks disappear from the classroom, Nancy and her friends have a job on their hands to find out who stole the baby chicks.

Chicks & Salsa EASY REY
Soon after the chickens tire of their feed and decide to make tortilla chips and salsa, all the other animals on Nuthatcher Farm start to crave southwestern cuisine.

Chickens J 636.5 MIL
Describes the physical traits, lifestyle, and behavior of chickens and their role in providing humans with meat.

Chickens J 636.5 STO
An introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of chickens and their relationship to humans.

Chicken and Cat EASY VAR
When Cat feels sad about living in the hustle and bustle of the city, Chicken finds colorful ways to make Cat feel better.

Chicken bedtime is really early EASY PER
Rhyming text describes how different animal mothers and fathers get their young ones ready for bed on the farm.

Chicken bucks J SHA
When hard times force twelve-year-old Mark to change his 4-H project from raising a calf to selling eggs from his chickens, he finds that the experience is both challenging and surprisingly rewarding.

The chicken-chasing queen of Lamar County EASY HAR
A young farm girl tries to catch her favorite chicken, until she learns something about the hen that makes her change her ways.

Chicken chicken JPB STI
Crystal and her brother Cole made Vanessa mad. After she whispered that strange warning, "Chicken chicken" something weird has happened. Crystal's lips have turned as hard as a bird's beak, and Cole has started growing ugly white feathers all over his body.

Chicken for a day EASY MIN
A girl wakes up to find she has turned into a chicken.

Chicken forgets EASY MIL
A forgetful chicken, off to pick blackberries for his mother, almost comes home with flies, weeds, or clover blossoms instead.

Chicken Little J DVD CHI
Chicken Little causes widespread panic when he mistakes a falling acorn for a piece of the sky.

Chicken Little EASY KEL
Chicken Little and his feathered friends, alarmed that the sky seems to be falling, are easy prey to hungry Foxy Loxy when he poses as a police officer in hopes of tricking them into his truck.

The chicken of the family EASY AMA
When her older sisters tease her into believing that she is actually a chicken, Henrietta runs off to a farm to be among her own kind.

Chicken run J VIDEO CHI
While the chickens on Mrs. Tweedy's farm dream of a better life, a clever hen named Ginger is hatching plans to fly the coop for good.

Chicken said, "Cluck!" EASY GRA
Earl and Pearl do not want Chicken's help in the garden, until a swarm of grasshoppers arrives and her true talent shines.

The Chicken sisters EASY NUM
The Chicken sisters drive a troublesome wolf home to his mother with their overwhelming eccentricities.

Chickens to the rescue EASY HIM
Six days a week the chickens help the Greenstalk family and their animals recover from mishaps that occur on the farm, but they need one day to rest.

Chickie Riddles J 818 HAL

Chicky chicky chook chook EASY MAC
Chicks, chickens, cats, and bees on a farm enjoy an active, busy day playing, snoozing, and getting drenched in a thunderstorm before finally going to sleep at night.

Cock-a-doodle Dudley EASY PEE
Dudley the rooster's ability to make the sun rise with his crowing is questioned by a spiteful goose, whose malice almost destroys the popular rooster.

Coco counts : a little chick's first book of numbers B.B. TAN
Coco the chick teaches young readers how to count from 1 to 10.

Cook-a-doodle-doo! EASY STE
With the questionable help of his friends, Big Brown Rooster manages to bake a strawberry shortcake which would have pleased his great-grandmother, Little Red Hen.

Custard Surprise EASY LOD
Two chickens, Dinah and Rufus, find that running a diner is harder than they expected when every customer wants something that is not on the menu, until finally someone comes in for whom the Custard Surprise is just right.

Daisy and the egg EASY SIM
Daisy the duckling eagerly awaits the arrival of a new brother or sister, even helping Mama Duck sit on the egg while they wait for it to hatch.

Daisy comes home EASY BRE
Daisy, an unhappy hen in China, floats down the river in a basket and has an adventure.

Disney's Chicken Little : the essential guide J 791.43 DIS
A guide to the Disney movie.

Don't be a chicken! EASY DIS
Chicken Little faces life's challenges with bravery and good sense.

Dora's chicks EASY SYK
While Dora is out looking for their breakfast all six of her chicks disappear.

The egg EASY ROB
George hatches a dragon from a strange egg that he finds and then faces the challenge of raising him properly.

Egg : a photographic story of hatching J 591.33 BUR

An egg is quiet J 591.468 AST
Introduces readers to more than 60 types of eggs and an array of egg facts.

Eggs 101 a video project J PTS 637.5 EGG DVD
For a school video project, Josh and Kenlyn decide to investigate the egg industry. Their assignment is to find out how the egg industry has changed over the years, where it is today, and come up with a conclusion as to why the industry has changed. Introduction (1:15) -- The hen (2:40) -- The egg (2:06) -- History (6:26) -- Road trip: Purdue (3:00) -- Road trip: Egg farm (2:58) -- Hen house (3:00) -- Egg processing (4:30) -- By the numbers (2:13).

Egg-napped! EASY MON
Gabbler and his wife are thrilled with their first egg and horrified when it disappears.

A friend for Minerva Louise EASY STO
When Minerva Louise, a curious chicken, mistakes a baby crib for a rabbit hutch, she searches for the rabbit and in the process discovers new additions around the house.

Gimme cracked corn & I will share EASY OMA
Chicken dreams about a treasure and sets off on a dangerous journey to find it.

Good morning, chick EASY GIN
When he tries to imitate a rooster, a newly-hatched chick falls in a puddle.

Henny-Penny EASY WAT
While on their way to tell the king that the sky is falling, Henny Penny and her friends meet the very hungry Foxy-Loxy.

Henrietta and the golden eggs EASY JOH
The persistence of Henrietta, one of 3,333 chickens on a chicken farm, leads to a better life for them all.

Here a chick, where a chick? EASY MAC

Hurry! hurry! EASY BUN
All the animals of the barnyard community hurry to greet their newest member, who is just pecking his way out of an egg.

I am loud and crowing, proud and strutting. I have a sharp beak. Who am I? EASY BUT
Describes parts of a well-known animal and invites the reader to identify it.

It's quacking time EASY WAD
A duckling and all his family happily await the hatching of his parents' new egg.

The Josefina story quilt Easy COE
While traveling west with her family in 1850, a young girl makes a patchwork quilt chronicling the experiences of the journey and reserves a special patch for her pet hen Josefina.

Life cycle of a chicken J 636.5 ROY
Introduces the mating, hatching, life cycle, eating, predators, and lifespan of chickens.

Little Chick E HES

Little chickens J 636.5 BAR
Enter the world of chicks as they grow to be adults.

The Little red hen EASY ZIE
The classic tale of the hen who has no one to help her grow, harvest, and mill the wheat, but several who want to eat the fruit of her labors.

Louise : the adventures of a chicken EASY DIC
Longing for adventure, intrepid Louise leaves her comfortable nest and goes to sea.

M¯adh¯a f¯i d¯akhilih¯a? J 492.7 MAR
Translation of: What's inside.

Max counts his chickens EASY WEL
On Easter morning, when Ruby finds all ten of the marshmallow chicks hidden by the Easter Bunny, Grandma must quickly think of a way to make things fair for Max.

Minerva Louise at school EASY STO
Out for an early morning walk, a chicken wanders into a school that she mistakes for a fancy barn.

The most wonderful egg in the world EASY HEI
To settle a quarrel between three hens, the king must choose which one lays the most beautiful egg.

My life as a chicken EASY KEL
After escaping the frying pan, a chicken has an adventure that includes pirates, a typhoon, and a balloon ride before landing happily in a petting zoo.

Nana's big surprise J 468 PER
Amada and her family build a chicken coop, hoping that her grandmother, visiting from Mexico, will enjoy raising the chickens and be distracted from her grief at Grandfather's death.

No more chores! EASY VUO
Mama and her chicks have fun while doing their chores.

Owen's marshmallow chick B.B. HEN
Owen is joyous when he receives a marshmallow chick as part of an Easter basket. Decked out in his purple plaid Easter finery, this boy mouse spends a giddy day playing with his sugary new pal. And does he succumb to tasty temptation? How dare you even think such a thing!

The perfect nest EASY FRI
Jack the cat gets much more than he bargained for when he decides to build the perfect nest to attract the perfect chicken.

The Plot Chickens E AUC
Henrietta the chicken loves to read so much that she decides to write a book herself, but first no one will publish a book written by a chicken, and then, when she publishes it herself and it gets a terrible review in "The Corn Book," Henrietta is devastated.

The problem with chickens EASY MCM
When women in an Icelandic village buy chickens to lay eggs for them to use, the chickens follow them, adopting human ways and forgetting their barnyard roots, until the ladies hatch a clever plan.

The scarecrow's hat EASY BRO
Chicken thinks Scarecrow's hat will make a nice nest, but first she must swap with Badger, Crow, Sheep, Owl, and Donkey.

Science projects and activities J 507.8 CHA
Gives instructions for science projects and experiments involving an ant colony, a chicken brooder, plant grafting, microphotography, water purification, and other topics.

Stories & language skills J PTS 372.4144 WAR
Why is it important to share stories and language activities with young children? Chicken Little/Henny Penny

Storey's illustrated guide to poultry breeds : more than 128 breed profiles of chickens-waterfowl-turkeys-ratites-game birds

664.93 EKA Introduction to poultry -- Chickens -- Waterfowl -- Turkeys -- Other birds of interest.

This little chick EASY LAW
A little chick shows that he can make the sounds of the animals in his neighborhood.

Thump, quack, moo : a whacky adventure EASY CRO
The annual Corn Maze Festival is coming and everyday the chickens, cows, and Duck help Farmer Brown--with a few bribes--to create a special Statue of Liberty corn maze, and every night Duck works hard recreating his own surprise.

Tillie lays an egg EASY GOL
In search of the perfect place to lay her egg, Tillie the chicken leaves the barnyard and explores the farmhouse.

Tippy-toe chick, go! EASY SHA
When a mean dog blocks the path to the garden where a delicious breakfast awaits, Little Chick shows her family how brave and clever she is.

The twin princes EASY ARN
Two chicken princes who are twins take part in a contest to determine which one will inherit the throne.

Wee little chick EASY THO
When the other barnyard animals comment on how tiny the littlest chick is, the proud little one peeps louder, stands taller, and runs faster than any of them.

What did you do today? EASY ARQ
A cat, pig, bee, chicken, and other farm animals describe what they did during the day.

Where do chicks come from? J 636.5 SKL
Describes what happens day-by-day for the three weeks from the time a hen lays an egg until the baby chick hatches. Read and find out all about eggs -- and how baby chicks grow inside of them. Learn how chicks develop, how they get the food they need to grow, and how a mother hen helps keep them safe in this simple introduction to the life cycle of a baby chick.

Why did the chicken cross the road? J 741.5 WHY
Various award-winning artists present their own version of the classic joke.

Word Bird makes words with Hen EASY MON

Wow! it's great being a duck EASY RAN
Lillee, the last to hatch and the smallest of the ducklings, would rather walk than learn to swim.


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