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Yes, the title is the answer to “You know what?” On the next spread the question is, “You know why?” Forcing the response, “Chicken thigh!” The classic joke series gets a picture-book treatment here, with a small boy pestering his newspaper-reading father, incessantly demanding attention well past the limits of Dad’s patience. When the boy is sent to the corner after getting way too excited, he comes up with a new answer to “You know what?” that doesn’t have anything to do with chickens, but doesn’t lose the butt part either. Each poultry-based answer is splayed across the relevant bit of a cartoonish chicken, emphasizing the child’s exuberant silliness. Adults will easily recognize kids’ habits of taking a joke and running with it ad nauseam, blithely ignorant that they’ve long lost their audience. But, of course, the joker wins out in the end, with a worn-out Dad resignedly sacked out on the couch. More than anything, kids will come away from this boisterous and lighthearted offering with a swell new chicken joke to try out on their parents. Preschool-Kindergarten. --Ian Chipman


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You know what?
What?
Chicken butt!
 
The classic schoolyard joke has been recast as an irreverent picture book, with call-and-response parts for parent and child. The word repetition in Erica S. Perl’s text, and wonderfully comic illustrations by beloved artist Henry Cole, make this a particularly inviting book for new readers, as does the opportunity to “trick” a parent or other adult into participating in a very silly joke. The humor builds to a surprising and satisfying conclusion. Warning: Kids will want to read this one over and over and over again!
 
“An unhinged piece of slap-happy rhyming…rocket-propelled artwork…the romp is a powerful piece of cacophony, more frenetic by the moment.”—Kirkus Reviews
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  • Reading level: Ages 4-8
  • Hardcover: 32 pages
  • Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers; Library Binding edition (April 1, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0810983257
  • ISBN-13: 978-0810983250
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 9.1 x 0.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #242,993 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious, April 8, 2009
I gave this book to a 6 year-old last week. I believe he is still laughing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This book is really funny and silly!, July 3, 2009
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We saw this book in the store and HAD to get it. I was crying I was laughing so hard in the store as we read this book! It's a silly, yet fun book! Kids will love it! And well Adults too!
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Book Review: Chicken Butt!, April 20, 2009
So here's the question: How do you feel about a raucous storytime? Are you pro or con? Cause that's what you're going to have if you pull this one out during read-aloud. There are children's books that work well when shared, then you have books like Chicken Butt, that are created for group settings. Say goodbye to the "fouth wall" - readers are invited into the story from page one. While the central joke isn't new, this winning combination of humor and the element of surprise will make for a memorable read aloud.

When the title of a book is chicken butt, you can imagine where things are going. After a lost chicken follows a brown-haired boy home, he decides to spring that age old question, "You know what?", upon his unsuspecting father, who responds with a simple, "What?" The answer ("Chicken butt!") comes when the page is turned, with the chicken providing a visual aid. A series of similar question-and-answer exchanges ensue, with a range of fowl anatomy (thigh, eyebrow, etc.) brought into the mix. The father eventually grows weary of this game and wants to put an end to it. But the boy, using all his powers of persuasion, gets his dad to answer one last question - the answer to which will be a sure-fire crowd pleaser.

If you've read Leslie Helakoski's Big Chickens than you're familiar with Henry Cole. Loose and expressive, Cole's illustrations set the right mood for this sort of story.

Really, this is less of a review than it is a question. Are you ready for the sort of rip-roaring storytime that this book promises? While adults (like the one in the book) may not be thrilled with the premise of Chicken Butt, kids will be unquestionably sold.
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