Monday, July 18, 2011

Interrupting Chicken

Ezra, D.  (2010). Interrupting Chicken. Somerville, Mass: Candlewick Press, 2010.
 
Award: Caldecott Honor

Exposition: Little chicken asks her dad to read her a bedtime story

Conflict: Little chicken can’t quit interrupting her dad while he is telling a story

Rising Action: Father chicken tries to tell three stories, each of which is interrupted by little chicken so that the father can’t finish any story.

Climax: Father chicken tells little chicken that if she wants a story she’ll have to tell one herself since she can’t stop interrupting.

Falling Action: Little chicken begins to tell father chicken a story

Resolution: Father chicken and little chicken fall asleep.

Illustrations: Full color page illustrations, which are done in bold colors, are engaging. Little chicken is superimposed on the pages of the story she is interrupting which make for a story within a story. The story pages that father chicken is reading are in pastels.

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