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I bought a bunch of children's books for my friends kids this holiday season and I feel silly adding to my goodreads stats, but hey! A book is a book! This is the cutest book of being brave and also being ok about being chicken and who you see. Collaboration by some of my favorite Viet author and illustrator and their respective children.
I was at the book launch at Vroman's in Pasadena today and got to meet all four authors/artists including 5-year old Ellison Nguyen. This is a really great multiple family project and I hope others follow the lead of the Nguyens and the Buis.
Sweet family project sponsored by McSweeney’s.
Viet Thanh Nguyen and Thi Bui are my favorite authors. It is amazing that they collaborated with their children on this fun and meaningful project. I have bought CHICKEN OF THE SEA as gifts for my nephews and nieces for Christmas.
What started as a story from a 5 year old and then illustrated by a Caldecott award winner, this picture book is for all ages because it is so darn funny. The "funny" just sneaks up on you. Read it more than once and you'll appreciate how the jokes just slipped past you the first time.
The authors visited our school (via Zoom) last month. They explained their collaborative process and how the book grew from a few comics panels to an entire published work. My kindergartners were so inspired by their talk that we ended up embarking on a month-long collaborative fiction-writing unit that we made up by the seat of our pants (with awesome results!). The book is incredibly fun and my students have asked to hear it over and over again.
A fun and weird book--bought it for my nephew (who is 3), but also enjoyed it myself. He's on the sensitive side and seemed scared at some parts, but a couple of weeks later, asked after the book unprompted!
A quirky fun book with great illustrations.
I enjoyed reading this one to Alena. I really like that the idea and the words came from a child. Fun book.
Such an absurd and adorable story that I laughed out loud at least twice. Chickens turned pirates is just automatically hilarious, especially during the identification of what would constitute treasure, from a chicken's perspective.
This book is so cute, and even though it's a little discombobulated, I love that it was conceived of and partially written by a 4-year-old and illustrated by a 12-year-old who have great parents to support and encourage them!
What a whimsical read. It's a collaboration between adults and kids, and I loved that sort of collaboration. Would definitely read another book by this team.
Such a fun book to read! My students love it and they also love to hear the story behind how it was made (all of that information is at the end of the book)!
This book is cute and would be fun to read to toddlers. The price is a bit high. However, local library should have a copy.
