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It's a funny picture book that could be used as a manual on writing.- Ieva Bates, Ann Arbor District Library, MIĬopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The Plot Chickens by Mary Jane Auch: 9780823423071 : Books Henrietta loves to read. A droll chicken with a repeating line adds to the humor. There are imagined scenes in cloud shapes, word balloons, and jokes aplenty. The pictures are busy, with Henrietta at her typewriter while her friends cavort around her. Of course, all the children heard was BUK, BUK, BUK.' The illustrations, a combination of oil paints and digital technology, are bold and colorful. Henrietta gets another rejection: 'odoriferous.' Then she wanders into the library at storytime and sees that her book was chosen best of the year by the children. She takes a copy to her librarian, who tells her to send it to The Corn Book Magazine for review.

When it is rejected by a publisher, Henrietta decides to self-publish.

Kindergarten-Grade 2-Henrietta the chicken, star of Souperchicken (Holiday House, 2003), is an avid library user and decides that because reading is so much fun, 'writing books must be eggshilarating.' She finds a manual of writing rules and creates her own story-with the unsolicited help of the other fowl.

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