Format:
Book
Title:
Why did the chicken cross the road? / Jon Agee ... [et al.].
Publisher, Date:
New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c2006.
Description:
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Summary:
Fourteen artists present their mostly visual answers to the age-old question in two-page illustrations done in various mediums and styles. Words are at a minimum; the pictures speak for themselves. Marla Frazee's solution is simple, showing a brown hen hurrying from a plain wooden coop pelted by rain to a colorful, palacelike haven surrounded by blue sky (a thought bubble reads: duh). In Mo Willems's scene, a nervous fowl responds to a grilling by angry police officers by swearing that she crossed just{u2026}to get to the other side! Honest! Meanwhile, the heat is on, as a cop prepares a barbecue in the background. Judy Schachner's plump black chicken that foolishly heads to a dinner date with two hungry foxes, {u2026}wasn't just free-range{u2026}she was de-ranged! Jerry Pinkney's familiar Little Red Hen goes over to attend a tea party with her friends, while Harry Bliss's cartoon critter runs away from mutated zombie chickens from Mars! An equally funny section entitled Why Did the Artist Cross the Road? provides the illustrators' responses along with brief lists of their works. It's not often that one title is filled with such talent and such child appeal.
Subjects:
Chickens -- Caricatures and cartoons -- Juvenile literature.
Chickens -- Juvenile literature.
Other Author:
Agee, Jon.
Frazee, Marla.
Willems, Mo.
Schachner, Judith Byron.
Arnold, Tedd.
Shannon, David.
Radunsky, Vladimir.
Pinkney, Jerry.
Sheban, Chris.
Bliss, Harry, 1964-
Grandpre, Mary.
Munsinger, Lynn.
Catrow, David.
Raschka, Christopher.
LCCN:
2005016196
ISBN:
0803730942
0803732031 (hc.)
9780803732032
9780803730946
Other Number:
60605190
System Availability:
56
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
511910
Call Number:
741.5/973
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
54