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Busy-busy Little Chick

Mama Nsoso knows her chicks need a warm new house, but each day when they set out to collect sticks and mud she is distracted by good things to eat, while Little Chick stays busy gathering the building materials himself.

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Main Author:	Harrington, Janice N.
Other Authors:	Pinkney, J. Brian (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2013.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Perseverance (Ethics) > Juvenile fiction. Chickens > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	Mama Nsoso knows her chicks need a warm new house, but each day when they set out to collect sticks and mud she is distracted by good things to eat, while Little Chick stays busy gathering the building materials himself.
Item Description:	"Includes an author's note and a glossary"--Jkt. flap.
Physical Description:	1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
ISBN:	9780374347468 (hardcover) 0374347468 (hardcover)
Author Notes:	Janice N. Harrington received the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award for her first picture book, Going North , and a Parents' Choice Award for The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County . She lives in Champaign, Illinois. Brian Pinkney's awards include two Caldecott Honors, four Coretta Scott King Honors and a Coretta Scott King Award, and the Boston Globe - Horn Book Award. He is the illustrator of the New York Times bestseller Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down , written by his wife, Andrea Pinkney. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.