What a delightful book about chickens for young readers. The text is packed with facts and nicely it's written in a light-hearted style that's easy to understand but what I really liked about the book are the easy on the eye graphic illustrations by Camilo Pintonato (and she designed the pages, as well). Though the illustrations might look rather casual they are correct when detail requires it, pages five and six showing various chicken breeds or the meaning of feather colors on pages sixteen and seventeen. Other illustrations, for example, a henhouse, the natural world, people or food all have a light touch and color that children should enjoy.
The book's subtitle: 'The ultimate encyclopaedia' is true. A huge amount of information is packed into the seventy-four pages. Who knew that a Jersey Giant can be almost three feet tall, chickens often stand on one leg to relax, they can count up to four, the Vietnamese drink egg coffee or that hen therapy works for children and the elderly. The last eight pages have a series of lovely large one to a page pictures of breeds shown in a very graphic style and details of eight breeds.
The publishers have a similar book called Pigology coming out in the autumn, illustrated by Camilla Pintonato, I would add to that an 'ology' on sheep, cows and horses.
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