Customer Reviews

Buffalo Wings

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Like its companion volume, Chicks and Salsa, this barnyard send up is a snackers delight. It invites kids to laugh out loud at the story and cook up some stories of their own to go with favorite snacks as a creative writing exercise. In this one, everybody at Nuthatcher Farm is gathering to watch football and eat themselves silly. The ducks are bringing quackamole. The pigs are bringing nachos. Rooster wants to bring buffalo wings and sets out to get some--from the buffalo. But then he rereads his recipe and finds that in addition to garlic, vinegar, ketchup, and hot sauce the vital missing ingredient is derived from body parts of his close relatives! He slinks back to the wide-screen TV and shares chuck-wagon chili, pizza with pineapple, onion rings and jalapeno hush puppies with his friends. The end paper has a recipe for buffalo-free buffalo wings (which do contain chicken wings however) that will encourage all readers to start cooking up reading. The inside front cover has a recipe for Halftime Jalapeno Hush Puppies that pack a punch too.

This had a similar feel to Chicks and Salsa, but wasn't nearly as detailed with the pictures, and the story wasn't as fun.

Excellent and a great follow up to Chicks & Salsa. My students loved it.

This is a really cute book that I noticed in the new book section of the library. The rooster needs a spicy snack for the big game. He goes looking for buffalo wings and gains a vegetarian alternative and some new friends. A very cute book with great pictures. It was just absurd enough to keep my 8 year olds attention. I would recommend it for 2nd grade and below.

I bought this book for all the young children on my holiday list this year after I read it! The message is charming and the illustrations are exquisite. Highly recommended.

My son Jacob, 6 years old, loves Buffalo Wings. He took it into school for his day of "show and tell." The teacher read it to the class and it was a big hit. Not only is the story cute but, the illustrations are so colorful they really hold my sons attention. He loves trying to find the mouse on each page. Every time we eat out, he asks the waiter if they serve Buffalo Wings and then giggles!

I picked this one up on a good sale ($2!) to give to my niece's class as I know they have Chicks 'n Salsa and I thought they'd like the sequel/companion book.

In this one, the farm animals are having a football watching party. (Note: I'm not a big fan of the sort of farm books where animals exist only to be a nuisance. Nobody keeps pigs unless he plans to eat them, thanks very much, but this NEVER COMES UP. It weirds me out. However, lets move on.)

The rooster is concerned that they don't have the perfect snack, so he decides to make buffalo wings and heads out west to go get a buffalo and take the wings.

Once he's there, though, he realizes his mistake - buffalo wings are CHICKEN wings! Now, I don't know about you, but if I had this big plan to cook dinner, and then found out that my recipe came from a dusty old copy of To Serve Man, I'd be more than "red-faced". I would have more concerns than the fact that my "perfect feast was a flop". But the implied almost-cannibalism gets no more mention, and the rooster just invites the buffalo home to watch the big game with him.

Did you get that? He invites the animals he was going to EAT home to watch TV with him. Awkward, much? I'm not a vegetarian, but I don't think I'd want to eat a sentient TV-watching critter who could've been my best friend.

Oh, and then all the animals play football together and eat jalapeno hush puppies. The buffalo aren't a heck of a lot larger than the chickens.

At the end of the book is a recipe for buffalo wings, with a "cute" note in the ingredients that the chicken wings should include "no rooster wings, please!". Um. Yeah.

I'm not, as I said, a vegetarian. I just ATE a plate of buffalo wings before I typed up this entry! But I think it's a little strange and creepy for a book about a talking chicken who cooks and plays football to include a recipe for, well, chicken. It just sends a very strange and bizarre message. (And roosters ARE chickens. Is it okay to eat the girls (hens) but not the boys (roosters)? What sort of messed up, misogynistic chicken standard is that?)

I will still give it to the classroom. After all, I probably *am* overthinking this. I'm sure the kids will just read it and get a funny story about a hilarious mishap.

But I was really freaked out, and don't want it on MY shelf.