Kid Review – New Chicks at The Peaceable! – picture book
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About the Book
Book: New Chicks at The Peaceable
Author: Caryl “Grami” McAdoo
Genre: Children’s Animals Picture Book
Release Date: November 23, 2023
Chickens from newborns to old hens have a “pecking order” but bullying is never right! What to do if you’re bullied by those around you!
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My Kid Review
McAdoo, Grami. New Chicks at The Peaceable! 2023.
Caryl McAdoo has written many books for many age levels from preschooler to adult. New Chicks at The Peaceable! is her second picture storybook about the chickens at her farm.
New Chicks at The Peaceable! is more of a picture storybook as there is more space used by words than is used by pictures on each two-page spread. The one side of some of the two-page spreads is a more detailed “nonfiction” type text with the other side being more of a picture book story. I think the book would appeal more to littles if the picture book pages were together and the longer nonfiction text was at the end. Or even write two different books – one a picture book for littles and the other a more nonfiction book about chickens for older elementary children.
The final pages of the book contain chicken terminology and facts about chickens that may help a child who is learning more about chickens.
I was disappointed to find several spelling and spacing errors in the text – I think the book needed more careful editing.
There is nothing in New Chicks at The Peaceable! that would keep it from a K-12 Christian school library.
I received a complimentary copy of New Chicks at The Peaceable! This is my honest review.
About the Author – Caryl McAdoo
Award-winning, Christian author Caryl McAdoo prays her story brings God glory. Of her best-selling novels, readers love her historical Christian romance family sagas most, but also enjoy their contemporary cousins, Caryl’s Biblical fiction, her new historical mystery series, and tales for young adults and mid-grade booklovers as well as the new picture books for the still younger set. The majority of reviewers award her stories five-stars and praise Caryl’s writing style and the depth of her characters, feeling as though they get to know them well.
The prolific writer loves singing the new songs God gives her almost as much as penning new novels—hear a few at YouTube! She’s been married to Ron fifty-five years, and they share four children and twenty-seven grandsugars. The McAdoos live at The Peaceable in the woods south of Clarksville, seat of Red River County in far Northeast Texas, waiting expectantly for God to open the next door.
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As the chicken population grows at The Peaceable Farm & Bookery, troubles come–all based all on the true story! One of our beautiful ‘Golden Laced Wyandotte’ hens got broody and wanted to sit on a nest and hatch a clutch of chicks!
The wee peepers, designated the “Songsters” and named Reba, Celine, Loretta, and Miley (the last by a reader’s daughter), experience the famous and proverbial “pecking order” chickens are so famous for. In human terms that can be called bullying though, and so Goldie, their mother teaches the girls how to respond those bully chickens!
Grami loves her “backyard birds”, and so does O’Pa! She expects the name of the twenty acres she and O’Pa live on in Red River County—The Peaceable—to be the spur for all its inhabitants to cohabitate peacefully with one another—and that includes the chickens!
She and O’Pa, her husband of fifty-five years have bought an incubator to hatch purebred chicks then raise fine, healthy birds to their laying age—usually four to five months—before finding them forever homes. We love our flock, and the babies grow so fast. Watching them is so much fun and relaxing, too!
Grami knows each hen and rooster by name, and they all are so affectionate! They come running whenever I head out the door (mostly because they want to see if I brought any food! 😊) I love thinking about what they are saying to each other with all their clucking and purring and cackling!
This is why the books are partially written from the hens’ point of view as our first animals’ series, The River Bottom Ranch Stories featuring horses and goats and dogs among other wild animal characters. And all those farm animals were real ones that we owned and loved, too—like the chickens!
This series ‘Grami’s Stories for Children’ also has a narrator speaking throughout—that’s me, Grami McAdoo! I talk to the children through a few pages full of dialogue to teach them about poultry and things of God. In NEW CHICKS at the Peaceable, I talk about bullies and how Jesus teaches us to respond, how they can be scary, but God is always with us and sends His angels to protect us!
The illustrations are photographs of our real chickens and The Peaceable Farm & Bookery. In the back of the book, there are a few pages of “Chicken Terminology” and fun “Chicken Facts” to teach the little ones more about the wonderful world of chickens!
I pray the precious little ones so dear to God’s heart will love the story and be blessed by it! 😊
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Giveaway
To celebrate her tour, Caryl is giving away the prize of a $25 Amazon gift card and a copy of the book!!
Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.
https://promosimple.com/ps/29587/new-chicks-at-the-peaceable-celebration-tour-giveaway
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I was quite annoyed by the typos, too. The pictures are beautiful! My little girls loved them.
This should be a great read. Thanks for hosting this giveaway.
I appreciate your review! I’d love this I think, since I hatched chicks in the classroom when I was a teacher.
What or who inspires your writing?