Chicken Come Home

This is particular favourite of mine because I own 2 chickens and the chicken in this story is just like both of them! Dolly is a very brave and feisty little bird who likes to roam free range in her owner’s garden. Her owner is a little boy ‘who she likes best’ and Dolly likes to challenge him every day by laying her eggs in different places.
One day Dolly goes for another explore but inadvertently gets swept up in the basket of a hot air balloon where she tried to lay her egg. She gets carried far over her normal roaming patch. WHen she is set down she has to attempt to return to her own garden and passes by other animals on her journey. Eventually, don’t worry, she does return and even manages to catch a ride on the school bus whilst doing so.
The language is great for reading out loud in the book as there are some clucks of course but also shorter sentences which make for easy reading. The illustrations are endearing-naturalistic with some beautiful pictures of other animals and some of their homes. Some of the pictures are double pages which work well to give a lovely pictures of the nature scenes she finds herself in.
A lovely one for learning about well known animals, especially if you are a chicken owner!