This is just a fun book to read. Stein does a great job of integrating a story within a story. The unique way he does it specifically caught my eye. The story of the interrupting chicken is inter laid into the fairy tale stories. It allows the reader to get even more involved in the story. Very well done. ( )

Independent reading level: Grade K-1
Awarded a 2011 Caldecott Honor ( )

Genre
Bedtime stories
Humorous stories
Page to screen
Picture books for children
Read-alongs
Tone
Funny
Noisy
Illustration
Cartoony
Colorful
Subject
Bedtime
Chickens
Fathers and daughters
Interrupting
Storytelling
Character
Anthropomorphic

Primary/Intermediate
Papa wants to tell Chicken a bedtime story, but Chicken keeps interrupting! Will they ever go to sleep?
This is a funny sweet story, not much of a moral or academic lesson. But I'd still like to have it in my classroom and I bet I could maake my students laugh if I read it out loud.

This is a children's book about a little chicken at bedtime asking to be read a bedtime story but every time they read a bedtime story and papa chicken says it's time for bed the little chicken interrupts them. The images in the book are quite colorful and the book won The Caldecott Medal in 2011. I would recommend this book to beginner readers. ( )