Description - Chickens on the Loose by Jane Kurtz
- Enthusiastic, experienced, and well-connected author.
- Quirky, humorous, adorable picture book with regional and national education and gift market appeal.
- Easy to pair with merch, toys, and learning units.
- Excellent rhyming read-aloud for storytimes, reminiscent of Click Clack Moo and Sheep in a Jeep.
- Also portrays counting and basic concepts in animal husbandry.
- Includes information on how to care for urban chickens and fun facts.
- Publicity by Blue Slip Media will include: outreach to children's lit-interest bloggers; regional bookseller eblasts; TeachingBooks.net giveaway.
- Nearly 1 percent of all U.S. households surveyed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported owning backyard fowl in 2013, and 4 percent more planned to start in the next five years. That’s over 13 million Americans flocking to the backyard poultry scene.
- A 2015 review of 150 of the most-populated U.S. cities found that nearly all (93 percent) allowed backyard poultry flocks. For instance, in New York City, localvores can keep an unlimited number of hens so long as the area is kept clean. (No roosters allowed.)
- Book guide will be available.
- Synopsis: A rhyming picture book about urban chickens running rampant all over town.
- Lexile AD430L.
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