A review by woobat
Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer by Kelly Jones

5.0

This was so much fun. Nate and I read it at bedtime over the past month-ish. It has chickens with superpowers, which is fantastic, but it’s at least as much about Sophie finding her place in a new town and realizing that there are more friendly people than she thinks. It’s told all in letters, which is pretty cool. The drawing are hilarious and charming.

Sophie is mixed race (her father is white and her mother is Latina), and I appreciated the way race was handled in the story. It’s there, and Sophie has a few (age appropriate) interactions with people in town that show the challenges of being the only brown kid around.