Dora's Chicks [Paperback]

Julie Sykes (Author), Jane Chapman (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 2 and up

It’s time for breakfast and Dora’s Chicks are nowhere to be found. Dora searches the entire barnyard, and one by one her chicks appear in the strangest places! Kids will love searching for all six chicks right along with Dora in this sequel to Dora’s Eggs.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The eggs from Dora's Eggs have hatched! In Dora's Chicks by Julie Sykes, illus. by Jane Chapman, a mother hen searches the barnyard for her wayward offspring, hidden in the hay and blending with the buttercups.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-A fat, white hen, first introduced in Dora's Eggs (Little Tiger, 1997), leaves the nest "for a minute" to find breakfast for her six chicks, and when she returns they are gone. She scours the farmyard and discovers one or more of them with other animals. Dora reclaims her brood and explains that chickens do not eat the way pigs, ducks, horses, or birds do. However, children unfamiliar with barnyard animals will not understand what is happening. For example, the piglets are not shown nursing even though Dora explains that that is how Penny Pig feeds her babies. The math is too complicated for preschoolers. While the illustrations are large and bright, the animals are not expressive and Dora and the chicks are an unusual looking flock with thick, feathered legs. For counting and finding animals, Charlotte Pomerantz's One Duck, Another Duck or Nancy Tafuri's Have You Seen My Duckling? (both Greenwillow, 1984) can't be beat, and there are many other farm-animal books from which to choose.
Marlene Gawron, Orange County Library, Orlando, FL
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 2 and up
  
• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Tiger Tales (March 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1589253868
• ISBN-13: 978-1589253865
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 10.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,484,698 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A simple yet charming story, May 17, 2002

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dora's Chicks (Hardcover)

Marvelously written by Julie Sykes and splendidly illustrated by Jane Chapman, Dora's Chicks is a wonder-filled color picturebook for children, about a mother hen doing her best to keep track of her six chicks - but one has gone missing! The hen and her brood travel all about the farmyard, from animal to animal, asking each one about the missing chick. A simple yet charming story especially suitable for reading aloud to young people, Dora's Chicks is enthusiastically recommended for family, school, and community library picturebook collections for young readers ages 3 to 7.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars another book about counting, January 14, 2005

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J. Stout (Portsmouth, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dora's Chicks (Paperback)

The dialogue in this book is pretty pathetic, and the characters are lame, like Bobby the Bird. Give me a break. The illustrations could have been done better by a sixth grader.

Don't buy this book unless you want to be bored out of your mind every time you have to read it to your kids. Although, your kids will probably find it just as dull.