Mrs. Chicken and the hungry crocodile

Title
Mrs. Chicken and the hungry crocodile

Personal Author EPSB
Won-Ldy. Paye

Summary
When a crocodile captures Mrs. Chicken and takes her to an island to fatten her up, clever Mrs. Chicken claims that she can prove they are sisters and that, therefore, the crocodile shouldn't eat her.

Other Title
Missus Chicken and the hungry crocodile

Year Published
2003

Series
Literacy Place in the Early Years

Volume
Gr. 1 - L.A.

Physical Description
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.

Edition
1st ed.

Note
"A version of this story was previously published in Why Leopard Has Spots: Dan Stories from Liberia by Won-Ldy Paye and Margaret H. Lippert, illustrated by Ashley Bryan, by Fulcrum Publishing, Inc., Golden, Colorado, 1998."

Reading Grade level
2.7.

Grade Interest level
K-3.

Program Information
BALANCED LIT
 
Accelerated Reader LG 2.3 0.5 70036
 
Balanced literacy
 
Grade 1 Read Aloud Literacy Place
 
Read Aloud Grade 1

Subject
Crocodiles -- Folklore.
 
Dan (African people) -- Folklore.
 
Folklore -- Liberia.
 
Chickens -- Folklore.
 
Africa -- Folklore
 
Dan (African People)---Folklore
 
Award Winning Book.
 
Chickens -- Folklore
 
Crocodiles -- Fiction
 
Folklore---Liberia
 
Crocodiles---Folklore
 
Balanced literacy.

Added Author
Lippert, Margaret H.
 
Paschkis, Julie,
 
Paschkis, Julie, ill.

Electronic Access
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol031/2002001755.html

Summary
When a crocodile captures Mrs. Chicken and takes her to an island to fatten her up, clever Mrs. Chicken claims that she can prove they are sisters and that, therefore, the crocodile shouldn't eat her.

ISBN
9780805070477

Publisher
New York : H. Holt, 2003.


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Johnny BrightE PAYBook31455000113646Picture Books