I really enjoyed, My Life as a Chicken, by Ellen A. Kelley and Michael H. Slack! The illustrations were VERY colorful and the text was written in rhyme. Both of these qualities would appeal to young readers. The basic story line tells of a chicken who is seeking an escape from her ordinary, boring life in the hen house. She realizes, after adventures with pirates and typhoons that her life really wasn’t so boring after all!
My second personal choice was for a Caldecott book – Click, Clack Moo: Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin. I have shared both the book and the video with students in my media classes and they have all loved the story and illustrations. The video version presented on United Streaming is narrated by Country singer, Randy Travis.
