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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
A funny epistolary novel about a girl and her unusual chickens. Very sweet, directly addresses race, poverty and loneliness in a way that is appropriate for the character. I wish the illustrations were more interspersed with the text but that could change in the final printed edition.
This book.
Oh my gosh.
I just giggled all the way through it and cried happy tears at the end. I also wanted to slap Ms. Griegson and I was SO cheering at what happened to her at the end (don't worry I won't give any spoilers).
Sometimes we get dealt what we think is a bad hand in life. But if you approach those tough times as a student instead of as a victim, you will discover that "bad hand" is really just life redirecting your path to a greater blessing, and it is usually something totally unexpected and outside of your comfort zone.
It doesn't matter that this is a middle grader's book. There's a magical and beautiful --and funny!-- story on those pages.
Highly recommend this for book lovers of all ages!
Oh my gosh.
I just giggled all the way through it and cried happy tears at the end. I also wanted to slap Ms. Griegson and I was SO cheering at what happened to her at the end (don't worry I won't give any spoilers).
Sometimes we get dealt what we think is a bad hand in life. But if you approach those tough times as a student instead of as a victim, you will discover that "bad hand" is really just life redirecting your path to a greater blessing, and it is usually something totally unexpected and outside of your comfort zone.
It doesn't matter that this is a middle grader's book. There's a magical and beautiful --and funny!-- story on those pages.
Highly recommend this for book lovers of all ages!
It was cute. Great for younger readers! Not completely my cup of tea, but not bad.
This was a very funny book. It was a little hard to get into at first since it is pretty entirely epistolary and there isn't a lot of dialogue, but it was so funny that you can ignore it after a bit.
A lonely girl gets some chickens and writes letters about it. Letters to dead people, but sometimes she gets a reply... I liked the letters and the child-sized problems but felt that some of the chicken thief mystery was left unexplained.
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
At first Sophie, or Soficita Brown, isn’t happy with her family's move to the farm her father inherited from her Great Uncle Jim. It's quite a change from crowded Los Angeles, where she had friends, now she’s miles away from town and doesn’t know anyone, except the local letter carrier. So she starts writing letters to dead people, her abuelita Mariposa who’s in “A Better Place Than This Farm.” Then to her Great Uncle Jim in Valhalla (because his “great-grandad was Norwegian”). She needs advice. She’s discovered a very unusual, small, white, angry chicken who can levitate jam jars and lays glass eggs. Then an invisible chicken appears and disappears, and at the same time a chicken thief with a red-tailed hawk that’s able to transform itself into a chicken shows up. Some of the poultry in rural California is very unusual!
Jones and Kath have created a delightful fantasy reminiscent of Roald Dahl. Sofia’s transition into and acceptance by her new community, aided by sympathetic elders from beyond, is told and drawn in a lively style incorporating information about chicken breeds and care the way Herman Melville sandwiches information about whales and whaling into Moby Dick.
Jones and Kath have created a delightful fantasy reminiscent of Roald Dahl. Sofia’s transition into and acceptance by her new community, aided by sympathetic elders from beyond, is told and drawn in a lively style incorporating information about chicken breeds and care the way Herman Melville sandwiches information about whales and whaling into Moby Dick.
This was supa cute, and the audiobook is really well narrated. Obviously I'm not the intended audience here, but I had a blast with the lively narrative voice and humor. Children will no doubt delight in the magical chickens and Sophie's ambitious spirit.
Unbelievable that I so foolishly rated this only three stars last time when it's one of the best books ever written containing chickens.
I don't even like chickens (much like Sophie's mom; too many years with them as a kid) but this book is funny, charming, and full of real emotions filtered through a lense of Unusual Chickens.
I don't even like chickens (much like Sophie's mom; too many years with them as a kid) but this book is funny, charming, and full of real emotions filtered through a lense of Unusual Chickens.