Chicken Book

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From the local allotments and his nan's back garden, to Chatsworth and an unlikely friendship with the late Duchess of Devonshire, a famous hen-keeper, Chicken Boy tells the story of the love and satisfaction to be found in caring for living things. By submitting a review you grant us the right to display and use it in any way; please read our General Legal Notices for full details. If you're even remotely thinking about raising chickens, or you know someone who is getting into a chicken keeping, get this book, you'll learn so much about flock keeping. Desk and exam copies of certain titles are available to lecturers who wish to consider books as course texts. From decoding squawks to mapping out flock hierarchies and dealing with squabbles in the henhouse, How to Speak Chicken is the ultimate guide to keeping all of your ducks - make that chickens - in a row.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. But then, just about anyone will findThe Chicken Bookto be interesting, amusing, and fun to read on several levels. Anything is possible in the multiverse, including a madcap adventure starring a plucky, two-headed chicken.The work of 54 artists is collected over 168 pages in this small but beautifully produced hardback book that once again showcases the UK's printmaking talent. Brightly coloured and engaging illustrations grab the reader’s attention in this creative and fun graphic novel that also includes interactive elements, inviting readers to draw in the book, funny quizzes to take and jokes to keep both adults and children entertained as they read. Her first best-selling book, A Kid's Guide to Keeping Chickens, has won the 2016 Learning Magazine Teacher's Choice Award and the 2016 American Academy for the Advancement of Science's Prize for Excellence in Science Books. This tasty book also chases the chicken through literature, film, painting (Magrittes hilariously sad chicken staring at an egg in an eggcup) and national symbolism (especially French). Underpinned by several serious ideas but sprinkled with a generous dose of humor, [it] makes for some fine reading.

Her sister Sadia is speedy at spelling; her friend Fatima is fast at braiding hair; and her brother Bilal is brave with bulls but, when it comes to catching chickens, no one is faster or braver than Lami. This is a culinary world tour, with over 200 recipes using a vast array of flavours, and a chicken lover’s feast. Moreno Monti and Matteo Tranchellini live in Milan and have worked together for many years on international artistic projects, as well as advertising campaigns.Jacket moderately worn, with large chips at head of spine, upper rear panel, and lower front cover; taped closed tear at upper front panel; spine label. The well-structured text, with a generally good flow, is enhanced by vivid and high-quality illustrations. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. Starting with the evolution of chickens nearly 10,000 years ago and their adaptations to life with humans, The Chicken also analyzes the anatomy and behavior of modern domesticated chickens and provides practical tips for helping these amazing birds thrive. Run by Alan Marshall and Marion Scott Marshall who both have a wealth of experience in journalism and writing.

Parents - please ask your children's schools to take the free training and empower Dyslexic Thinking today. And she gives the reader a vivid sense of how the world looks to chickens, which ‘can obtain a clear view of morsels immediately in front of them on the ground while simultaneously receiving a panoramic view of the more distant environment. Irregular moderate sunning of cover margins and head and tail of spine, corresponding to dust jacket loss. The reader of Chicken will encounter a multitude of intriguing facts and ideas, including why the largest predator ever to walk the earth is considered the ancestor of the modern chicken, how mother hens communicate with their chicks while they’re still in the egg, why Charlie Chaplin’s masterpiece required him to play a chicken, whether it’s safe to take eggs on a sea-voyage, and how “chicken therapy” can rejuvenate us all. There are chickens painted by Chagall and Magritte, chickens made of hair-rollers, and chickens shaped like mountains.Chicken explores cultural practices like egg-rolling, the cockfight, alectromancy, wishbone-pulling and the chicken-swinging ritual of Kapparot; discovers depictions of chickenhood in ancient and modern art, literature and film; and also showcases bizarre supernatural chickens from around the world including the Basilisk, Kikimora and Pollio Maligno. Final chapters are "On Keeping Chickens,"--a step-by-step guide-- and "The Culinary Chicken (and Egg),: which includes twenty-one recipes.