The problem with chickens

When women in an Icelandic village buy chickens to lay eggs for them to use, the chickens follow them, adopting human ways and forgetting their barnyard roots, until the ladies hatch a clever plan.

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Main Author: McMillan, Bruce
Other Authors: Gunnella (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005.
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Summary:When women in an Icelandic village buy chickens to lay eggs for them to use, the chickens follow them, adopting human ways and forgetting their barnyard roots, until the ladies hatch a clever plan.
Item Description:"Walter Lorraine books."
Physical Description:32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 26 cm.
ISBN:0618585818 (hardcover)
Author Notes:Bruce McMillan has written and illustrated more children's books set in Iceland than any other United States author. Going Fishing is his sixth to be set there, and his forty-third overall. He often summers in Iceland, though he lives in Shapleigh, Maine. Bruce holds a B.S. in biology from the University of Maine and has received numerous awards and honors for his children's books.