Chicken for Dinner
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This issue's cover is taken from an illustration by Jerry Pinkney for The Tales of Uncle Remus by Julius Lester (Bodley Head, 0 370 31089 6, £9.95). We are grateful for help from Bodley Head in using this illustration.
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Chicken for Dinner
Jonathan Hills
The fate of a cooked chicken is seen from two viewpoints in this simple story. Outside the house two cats spy and devour the bird whilst inside mum and dad are too busy drinking and eating their tea to notice. Young children should enjoy the humour of the situation, the jokey coloured crayon illustrations and the brief, circular and deliberately deadpan text.