Chicken Butt!

By Erica S. Perl

Book Overview

You know what? What? Chicken butt The classic schoolyard joke has been recast as an irreverent picture book, with call-and-response parts for parent and child. The word repetition in Erica S. Perl's text, and wonderfully comic illustrations by beloved artist Henry Cole, make this a particularly inviting book for new readers, as does the opportunity to "trick" a parent or other adult into participating in a very silly joke. The humor builds to a surprising and satisfying conclusion. Warning: Kids will want to read this one over and over and over again "An unhinged piece of slap-happy rhyming...rocket-propelled artwork...the romp is a powerful piece of cacophony, more frenetic by the moment."-- Kirkus Reviews

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810983257
• ISBN13: 9780810983250
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 3 to 5 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 1

Customer Reviews

An Almost Perfect Book (If you're five)

Our five year-old couldn't stop laughing. He's decided he will learn to read, just so he can perform this book for anyone who will listen.

Kids will choose the book for its title and enjoy its special brand of humor

A child's enthusiasm and a father's exhaustion blend in a fun read-aloud guide to zany rhymes. Henry Cole provides the winning drawings in this simple story of a child whose whimsical riddles drive his father to distraction - and beyond. Kids will choose the book for its title and enjoy its special brand of humor.

Kid pleaser

Well, I wasn't even allowed to say the word "butt" when I was growing up, and here it is in a book. Teachers, you know how hard it is to get your students to reread. Well, one of my first graders has read this at least 50 times. He reads it fluently with enormous expression and still laughs when he reads it. It is just plain fun.

This book is really funny and silly!

We saw this book in the store and HAD to get it. I was crying I was laughing so hard in the store as we read this book! It's a silly, yet fun book! Kids will love it! And well Adults too!

Hilarious

I gave this book to a 6 year-old last week. I believe he is still laughing.