Central Kansas Library System

Welcome to the wonderful world of chickens! This beloved barnyard bird is full of surprises. Did you know some chickens are so small they can perch in the palm of your hand, and others have feathers that look like a beard? Chickens can learn to count up to four and have excellent hearing--many even like to listen to music! Chickenology takes young readers on a fascinating and informative tour of chickens. Discover the incredible variety of chickens...

While traveling west with her family in 1850, a young girl make a patchwork quilt chronicling the experiences of the journey and reserves two special patches for her pet hen Josefina.

Chicken's cow visitors try to jump, dance, and wiggle on this couch, which is much too tiny for such exuberant activities.

Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale.

A hungry wolf's attempts to fatten a chicken for his stewpot have unexpected results.

Quack the duck is accidentally hatched by a chicken, but he does not find true happiness until Mother Duck shows him how to swim and eat like other ducks.

The little red hen finds none of her lazy friends willing to help her plant, harvest, or grind wheat into flour, but all are eager to eat the cake she makes from it.

'A Little Apple paperback.'

A family learns about raising chickens when they buy baby chicks from a local farm.