Interrupting Chicken has a fantastic visual style that brings together various different mediums – the main spreads with the chicken and her father are watercolor paintings with a great palette of reds, greens, and browns there are sepia-toned storybook pages interspersed throughout the story and we even get the chicken’s own attempt at making her own picture book that’s illustrated in crayons. This is the first David Ezra Stein title that our family has read, and he’s a major talent, both as a writer and as an illustrator. So, full disclosure, Interrupting Chicken is a book about bedtime that we only read during daylight hours at the moment, but it is still one of our favorite semi-recent additions to our home library.

However, when it’s already past 8:00 pm and it’s a school night, it gets to be a bit much. Which, don’t get me wrong, is HILARIOUS to witness. She loves it SO much and she’s created such a weird, funny little ritual surrounding the book that, while we read it, she becomes such an active participant that she freaks out a little bit. I find I can’t read Interrupting Chicken to my daughter at bedtime anymore because it has the opposite effect of a good bedtime book – it actually wakes her up. Because the story centers on the dialogue, readers will enjoy spending a little extra time checking out the action-packed illustrations.I was WRONG. The use of classic nursery rhymes can make reading this book an engaging, interactive experience.ĭavid Ezra Stein continues to wow readers with impressive illustrations that combine two very different styles - the style of Chicken's and Papa's story, and that of the nursery rhymes. However, it may get tedious for younger readers who could struggle keeping up with the back-and-forth. Much of the book is told through dialogue between Chicken and Papa, which includes jokes and banter that parents and kids can relate too. This time, the focus is on rhyming, which is not only fun but also an important learning tool for young readers. Like its predecessors, Cookies for Breakfast takes readers through three examples of a literary device before giving Chicken a chance to create an original.

This story follows the format of the first two books in the series, making it feel positively familiar. Fans of the first two Interrupting Chicken books will be excited to pick up Interrupting Chicken: Cookies for Breakfast to see what antics Chicken will use to interrupt story time. This relatable and entertaining addition to the popular series makes for a lively read-aloud.

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