Where, Oh Where, Is Rosie's Chick?

Generations have enjoyed watching that oblivious hen Rosie (Rosie's Walk, rev. 8/68) take a walk through the farm, never noticing the fox stalking her steps. Now, almost fifty years later, Rosie is a mama, but still unobservant: "Oh, no! Where is her little baby chick?" In a series of sight gags, Rosie checks under the henhouse, in a basket, and up an apple tree. in search of her newly hatched chick. Rosie keeps looking, and the chick (with half its shell still covering its head) keeps wobbling behind her, blindly encountering a variety of dangers such as a cat and a sharp-toothed fish-not to mention the fox. Rosie revisits each of the places in the previous book where the fox tried to catch her-the wheelbarrow full of apples, the haystack, the beehives-but her chick is as lucky as she is and escapes injury each time. It takes some help from the other hens and their chicks for Rosie to finally find her little one, and in a funny twist, the first book's fox has her own baby here. The reds, yellows, bright greens, and oranges repeat from the previous book, and little curved black lines show motion to comic effect; the slapstick humor is perfectly pitched to the book's audience. susan dove lempke

Almost fifty years after Rosie's Walk, Rosie is a mama, but she's still unobservant searching for her newly hatched chick (wobbling behind her). Rosie revisits the places where the fox previously tried to catch her; slapstick humor shows her lucky chick escaping injury every time. The reds, yellows, bright greens, and oranges repeat from the previous book, and curved black lines show motion to comic effect.