Cluck, Cluck Who's There?

A sweet book about Hattie the Hen laying eggs, and it’s always nice to flip a flap for the surprise underneath. This is safe territory: an old-fashioned hen in a neat henhouse, cute chicks, and a friendly mouse, painted bright, bold and big, cartoon-like. It’s a counting book, but somewhat muddled. Hattie lays three eggs, but we only see two of them together. Hattie clucks once for the first egg, twice for the second egg, and three times for the third. There’s a muddle here with cardinal and positional numbers: two clucks and the second egg are not logically connected. In spite of the flaps, I’m not sure it would sustain a second viewing.