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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 1986
PreS-K Ormerod's World-Mother-Goose-Theater-treatment of The Story of Chicken Licken is a little disappointing. She presents the old story as a class (perhaps kindergarten) play: the narrator dressed in a top hat and bow tie, all of the bird costumes obviously put together from old clothes and cardboard-and-construction-paper masks. Ormerod's reporting of this ritual of childhood is the book's most appealing feature. Each double page is designed so that three-fifths of...Log In or Sign Up to Read More