![]() ![]() This Henny is no regular sky-is-falling chick. Stanton’s artwork marks her as a talent worth watching. In gentle pencil-and-watercolor sketches on an eggshell-white ground, Stanton scatters moments of quiet humor like chicken feed-Henny tries to “fit in” with a common chicken pose, folding her arms back like wings, and she bends those same elbows when she covers her ears to dampen a rooster’s crow. She even worried about things she didn’t quite understand-like tennis elbow, and hangnails, and whether she might need deodorant.” Henny eventually discovers a talent for farm chores and starts “to imagine all the other things she could do,” from hailing a cab to flying (a plane). Henny frets, albeit in non-chickenish ways: “She worried about being right-handed or left-handed. loved Henny anyway,” the other farm animals stare and even chortle. Instead of feathery wings, Henny has skinny pink human arms and hands. Readers will do a double take at the confident chicken who waves hello from the cover of Stanton’s debut. ![]()
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