The Chicken Sisters Module 4

Book Summary: Three sisters, one who loves to cook, one who knits and makes hats and scarfs for every one, and the third who sings while doing everything.None of them are very good but they all love their hobbies. The neighbors had enough and were planning on having a word or two with the sisters. Then a new neighbor moved in and everyone is scared. For the new neighbor is a wolf. The wolf as sneaky as he is, decides to talk to the sisters. They bake for him, and feed him burnt cookies, he didn't feel very good, so he laid down on the couch,they knitted for him and they sang for him. The singing drove him batty and as he tried to leave he  became entangled in the yarn. The neighbors came about this time and  wolf begged them to let him go, he promised to go and live with his mom. The wolf was let go and the neighbors all stayed for cookies, burnt of course, more knitted hats and some off key singing.




APA Reference of Book
Numeroff, L. J., & Collicott, S. (1997). The Chicken sisters. New York: Laura Geringer Book.


Impressions:  This book is a really cute version of the three little pigs. Instead of pigs, it is chickens. The pictures are nicely drawn and the story has a nice flow.

Professional Review:

KIRKUS REVIEW

Numeroff (Two for Stew, 1996, etc.) sends up the Big Bad Wolf story genre with this tale of an old wolf, new in the neighborhood, who is done in by a trio of contentedly incompetent hens: Their burned cookies, obsessive knitting, and off-key singing send him packing ``to live with his mother in Atlantic City.'' The chicken sisters' relieved neighbors conclude that all the smoke, noise, and unsolicited gifts of itchy knit hats might be worth putting up with after all. It's pure slapstick--the wolf has false teeth and was never a menace in the first place. The pictures are the highlight of all this silliness: In the sisters' living room, every conceivable object is encased in a pastel-colored knitted cover; the wolf, baring a decidedly human-looking pair of dentures, lurks in lush greenery; a pair of baby squirrels run about disguised as salt-and-pepper shakers. (Picture book. 4-7)

THE CHICKEN SISTERS by Laura Numeroff, Sharleen Collicott. (1997, May 30). Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved , from https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/laura-numeroff/the-chicken-sisters/

Library Uses:
For younger children this and the original Three pigs could be a starting point for them to rewrite a version of their own.