Synopsis :Momma Chicken tries to tuck in little Lulu, but Lulu is worried: What if a bear comes into the room? Or a tiger? Or an alligator? Will her momma scare them away? Will she protect Lulu from everything, even the friendly pigs? Well, she's a pretty powerful momma, and she sure enough can scare away any bad creatures. The ultimate goodnight book for every bedtime, whether in the barnyard, your own yard, or somewhere in between.
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After Momma Chicken tucks Lulu into bed and pecks her on the head ("gently of course"), the worried chick calls out, "What if a big, brown bear comes in while I am sleeping?" Momma reassures Lulu that she will "flap and cluck and scare it and chase it all the way back to the forest." Similar reassurances about tigers and alligators follow. Undercutting the sweetness and light is a hilarious visual subtext. Readers see two silent, wide-eyed pigs eavesdropping on Lulu's fearful musings and creeping ever closer to the security of the Momma-guarded bed. When the duo hides with comic ineptitude under Lulu's blanket-their pointy ears are a dead giveaway-the chick asks, "What if the pigs come in while I am sleeping?" Momma promises to "tickle them and squeeze them, and kiss them all over their faces"- and she does. Bogan (Spike) has a ball illustrating this barnyard crew. She wields ink and watercolors in lush reds, purples and blues, but her triumph is in the creatures' highly animated expressions. Momma's wings-on-hips annoyance and her single, angry eyebrow as she takes on a cowering tiger are not to be missed.
We checked this book out at the library. I want to add this book to our collection! The Momma Chicken is a perfect resemblence of how we are as Mothers with our chickadees! I took some photos so you can see the animated looks of the two little pigs in the story. (I had poor lighting for the pictures SORRY, they don't do justice)
Oh' the pigs are so cute! It reminded me of how my mom use to tuck me into bed and give us love (She called her goodnight kisses XOXO goodie kisses)
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