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Title: Max and the Chocolate Chicken
Author and Illustrator: Rosemary Wells
Publisher: Puffin (February 1, 2000)
Format: eBook
Genre: Childrens
Source: We Give Books
Ages: 3 and up
Well of course, you would not expect a bunny to have a chocolate rabbit - would you?
It is egg-hunting morning and Max and Ruby are out early wanting to win the grand prize of the chocolate chicken. Ruby explains that the person who finds the most eggs gets the chicken. Easy-peazy, or so it seems.
Why looks for eggs when there is so much more to see like mud puddles and acorns. As Ruby gathers eggs, Max finds spoons and ants.
Max still wants that chicken but has a plan that does not involve looking for eggs.
Not a very good plan and I am sure that parents will have a hard time explaining to their young children how you can have a happily ever after ending when stealing is involved.
The illustrations are colorful and engaging, just not sure that the overall theme is something that most parents would want to read to their children.
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