Chicken Book

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It features linocuts, collagraphs, woodcuts, monoprints, screenprints, etchings and wood engravings and there are around 160 images in total. Numerous beautiful illustrations show the many faces (and feathers and combs and tails) of Gallus, from wild roosters in the jungles of Southeast Asia to quirky Naked-Necks and majestic Malays. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. Photography has always been their passion, which they imaginatively transform into brilliant projects, either as a couple or in a larger team.

Melissa Caughey is the award-winning author of A Kid's Guide to Keeping Chickens and the blog Tilly's Nest. Here, children can explore some of the most interesting and important life cycles in the animal kingdom. Marion has been Editor of Connections, the John Lewis Partnership’s monthly magazine for its 15,000 retired Partners, since its launch in 2006. Find out why you must never touch a noisy chicken in this playful addition to our bestselling Never Touch series.Starting with the evolution of chickens nearly 10,000 years ago and their adaptations to life with humans, The Chicken also analyzes the anatomy and behavior of modern domesticated chickens and provides practical tips for helping these amazing birds thrive. She explains the tiny adjustments that occur within a viable egg—the way the embryo positions itself, before hatching, to hear its own heartbeat and the sounds of the world outside the egg. Her first best-selling book, A Kid's Guide to Keeping Chickens, has won the 2016 Learning Magazine Teacher's Choice Award and the 2016 American Academy for the Advancement of Science's Prize for Excellence in Science Books. Alliterative text and repeated phrases will encourage children to join in while the vibrant illustrations are wonderfully expressive and intricate, so youngsters will enjoy chasing the chicken through the pages as much as Lami does.

Her third book, Chicken Wisdom, features Melissa's original quotes and favorite thoughts bringing inspirational and encouraging messages filled with kindness to the reader. At times amusing, essentially very serious, this engaging offbeat look at the chicken--as an estimable creature in itself and as a symbol of man's desensitization through technology--[is] a pro-chicken, pro-man Western omelette worth reading and pondering.But what could the Earth’s most valuable resource be, and can they find it in time to stop the Nurgles exterminating the Earth? Her most recent book, My Chicken Family, allows readers to journal, scrapbook and create a keepsake of their time spent with their own flock.