Judyann Ackerman Grant

Earl and Pearl are working to build a garden, while the chicken begins to cause issues with the gardening process. As Earl and Pearl go through the process of digging, planting and weeding the chicken is constantly there clucking and scratching. They continually tell the chicken to "shoo", but the chicken always comes back. It wasn't until a grasshopper came to eat the vegetables that Earl and Pearl loved the chicken being there as the chicken scared the grasshoppers away. Genre: Picture Book

This book is about an annoying chicken that clucks and scratches the dirt. The two characters are trying to grow pumpkins and grasshoppers starts trying to eat their pumpkins and they just keep schewing the chicken away. The chicken is only trying to help keep the pumpkins free of pests so they can grow. This book has a good moral and it is to never give up.

CC Youth Reader and several ILL

26 months - this is a cute, fun story that we will have to read again when O starts to read. Lots of repetition on vocabulary yet actually manages to have a story.