Shelly Hen Lays Eggs - (Follow My Food) by Deborah Chancellor (Hardcover)

About the Book

"A child narrator tells the story of Shelly, a free-range hen; she pecks and scratches for food, roosts with her flock, and lays eggs that the narrator helps the farmer collect. Backmatter includes a matching game, more information about chickens, other animals that lay eggs, and a kid-friendly recipe"--

Book Synopsis

Follow Shelly Hen as she scurries about her coop, plays in the grass, and lays eggs in this stylish and fact-filled picture book, part of the Follow My Food series that looks at the ways different foods are produced.

White, brown, blue-eggs come in all kinds of colors. Every egg we eat comes from a bird, typically a hen like Shelly. Shelly Hen Lays Eggs is a simple but effective way to show children (and adults!) the daily life of a free-range hen, where eggs come from, and the labor involved in getting eggs from the farm to the table Featuring attractive collage-style art, the book also includes different species of birds and their different kinds of eggs, a simple recipe using eggs, and more information about chickens.

Review Quotes

"From hens to fried eggs: where our food comes from.... (w)ith appealing stylized illustrations and a relatively simple text... appropriately simple and effective."--Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Deborah Chancellor is the author of more than 100 books for children and young adults. Her books cover a range of topics from educational to biographies to cookbooks. Her work has been shortlisted for several honors, including the Little Rebels Award and the Gourmand World Cookbook Award.

Julia Groves is an illustrator with a focus on cut-paper and printmaking illustrations for children's books. Her first book Rainforest received a Banks Street Outstanding Merit, made the New York Times Best Books of the Year list, and was long-listed for the Cogan Biodiversity Picture Book.