FICTION

Mama Hen's Big Day!

by Jill LATTER
Mama Hen's Big Day! tr. from German by Rebecca K. Morrison. illus. by author. 32p. NorthSouth. 2013. Tr $17.95. ISBN 978-0-7358-4109-3.
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PreS-K—Large color-and-black-line cartoon illustrations team up with simple text to chronicle Mama Hen's search for a perfect place to lay her egg. Rejected sites are already occupied in turn by a snake, cat, porcupine, and fox. The continuing route leads Mama to "the tippy-top of the tallest mountain" (a rubble pile), where she accepts that the best place to lay an egg is "wherever Mama is!" Hen's travails are observed along the way by a snail, ladybug, butterfly, and birds, allowing discussion during lap-sit reads. This Swiss import is as sweet and simple as a kiss on the cheek.—Gay Lynn Van Vleck, Henrico County Library, Glen Allen, VA
Reviewed by Gay Lynn Van Vleck , May 01, 2013

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