Mrs. Chicken and the hungry crocodile

Title:

Personal Author EPSB:

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.

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."

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