Wee Little Chick
With Audio Recording
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- £4.99
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
Wee Little Chicken is the smalles of all his new brothers and sisters. Will he let that stop him from climbing the highest, running the fastest, and chirping the loudest? No way - when he puts his mind to it, Wee Little Chicken just might show all of the animals on the farm that wee little is just the right size.
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To the other animals in the barnyard, the most remarkable thing about the eponymous heroine "the littlest little" chick is her diminutiveness. " 'My, you're so tiny!' bleat the nanny goat tall." But there's a lot more to Wee Little Chick than her size. She can climb the highest of all her siblings, she has the loudest peep, and despite her "tiny little legs" she runs "the fastest of them all!" Butler (A Mama for Owen), working in his signature cuddly representational style, communicates that there's something special about his protagonist without anthropomorphizing her (aside from a glimmer of smile): those bold black eyes convey that this chick has the poultry version of fire in the belly. Even more intriguingly, neither the illustrator nor Thompson (the Little Quack series) turns this story into a typical narrative arc of condescension, envy, angst, struggle and triumph. Wee Little Chick is amazing from the start, and everyone seems most impressed by her achievements. This brisk, straightforward approach to a self-esteem message should resonate even with children who have no concerns about their place on the height charts or in the pecking order. Ages 2-6.
