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Chicks and Salsa
What happens at Nuthatcher Farm when the chickens get tired of the same old chicken feed? The rooster hatches a plan! With a pinch of genius, a dash of resourcefulness, and a little pilfering from the farmer's garden, the chickens whip up a scrumptious snack of chips and salsa. When the rest of the barnyard gets a whiff of the spicy smells and want to join in, it can mean...more
Paperback, 32 pages
Published
May 15th 2007
by Bloomsbury USA Childrens
(first published 2005)
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Chicks and Salsa: written by Aaron Reynolds, illustrated by Paulette Bogan
Monarch Award Nominee for 2009
Recommended for grades 1st-3rd
“Chicks and Salsa”, is a brilliantly colored book, that tells a story of what the animals on the Nuthatcher farm did when they became tired of their regular feed. Board with eating feed everyday, the Rooster, hero of the story, hatches a plan to take tomatoes, onion and other ingredients from the farmer’s garden to make salsa. The other animals learn of this and w...more
Monarch Award Nominee for 2009
Recommended for grades 1st-3rd
“Chicks and Salsa”, is a brilliantly colored book, that tells a story of what the animals on the Nuthatcher farm did when they became tired of their regular feed. Board with eating feed everyday, the Rooster, hero of the story, hatches a plan to take tomatoes, onion and other ingredients from the farmer’s garden to make salsa. The other animals learn of this and w...more
Monarch Award Winner for 2010
Chicks and Salsa
5 stars
1st – 3rd grades
The illustrations in this book were perfect. The colors were vivid and bold which fit the story very well. There were many added details from the spider and spider web in the barn to the flies around the pond. Even though it was a cartooning the picture was also realistic. The text was great, it was also neat how there was a little mystery how the animals got their certain things including the chips, nacho cheese, and the avocad...more
Chicks and Salsa
5 stars
1st – 3rd grades
The illustrations in this book were perfect. The colors were vivid and bold which fit the story very well. There were many added details from the spider and spider web in the barn to the flies around the pond. Even though it was a cartooning the picture was also realistic. The text was great, it was also neat how there was a little mystery how the animals got their certain things including the chips, nacho cheese, and the avocad...more
I added this to my "to read" list over a year ago when I read about "what a great book this is for children." Yeah, it was kind of funny but I didn't see anything exceptional about it - sorry.
Chickens, ducks, and pigs find a way to spice up their traditional slop food by adding a few special ingredients! The hilarious and bold watercolor illustrations really make this book come alive for me. Also, this book could be a vocabulary word study text, as it has some excellent words: aromas, satisfied, cuisine, enticing, pilfered, sumptuous, and savory. The sneaky mice in this book bring a special element to the plot; on every page, you can see that they are involved in some sort of spy wor...more
Apr 20, 2012
Sheniqua
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Shelves:
adventure,
animals,
cause-and-effect,
ece-3601,
humor,
math,
read-alouds,
sequencing,
senses,
picture-books
The chickens of Nuthatcher Farm were sick of chicken feed, so the rooster stepped in to solve this problem himself. The chickens along with the rooster began sneaking into the garden for tomatoes and onions to make a much more exciting and satisfying meal: salsa. Eventually word spread and even the ducks and pigs began creating their own dish. I love the humor in the book especially when the bull practices his dance for the fiesta but no one knows where he got the sombrero from. I love the vivid...more
So cute and quirky!
One day, a group of farm chickens decide they are tired of their plain feed and the Rooster spies of the farmer’s wife to learn how to make salsa. This leads to each of the farm animals to make various Latin foods. When they decide to all get together and have a fiesta, their plans are foiled because the farmer and his wife have used all of the vegetables in the garden. That doesn’t stop the enterprising Rooster who finds a French recipe for crepes.
This is a fun, interactive read aloud with brig...more
This is a fun, interactive read aloud with brig...more
Apr 24, 2013
Paula
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
2013-reads,
2013-storytime
Well, the chickens and other animals are tired of eating the same old same old. The rooster solves the problem and stops the anamial grumblings with some tasty dishes guaranteed to make you want to FIESTA! Don't all farm animals do that? The kids are sure to love this tasty treat. I read it for a few Kindergarten stories 4.23.2013 and 4.24.2013 and the kids seemed to like, but not as well as Little Red Hot by Eric A. Kimmel or Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin.
This book is about farm animals who get tired of their normal food. I like using this book with my ESL students because it has repetition and many new vocabulary words. It also has many dishes that my Latino students are familiar and they get excited when they read/hear them. Then, they always want to make a personal connection to the story as well. This book can range from late primary to upper elementary (because of some of the higher level vocabulary terms.)
Chicks and Salsa is fun book to read to kids. The story tells that the animals on a farm get tired of eating their pet food and end up making different varities of southwestern foods like nachos, tamales, salsa, and guacamole. I like how it had a variety of Southwestern foods. There were some big vocabulary words like "succulent," "sumptuous," and "champagne" that I think would be tricky for kids to read but overall it was a fun, enjoyable book to read.
A wonderful fiesta filled book!
The perfect book for your culinary inclined preschooler. The illustrations are bright and bold –a fiesta on each page - and the text is silly, simple, and teaches preschoolers about high quality ingredients like cilantro and jalapenos. Each page will have you and your little one shouting Ole!
Read this book, make some guacamole and salsa, and have a margarita (aqua fresca for the little one).
Ole!
The perfect book for your culinary inclined preschooler. The illustrations are bright and bold –a fiesta on each page - and the text is silly, simple, and teaches preschoolers about high quality ingredients like cilantro and jalapenos. Each page will have you and your little one shouting Ole!
Read this book, make some guacamole and salsa, and have a margarita (aqua fresca for the little one).
Ole!
I found that my students liked this one better when I pointed out some of the activities going on in the pictures, such as the pig stealing Mrs. Nuthatcher's sandwich on the title page, the pig's face turning bright red from eating a hot pepper, and things like that. I also found that they seemed to enjoy it more when I editorialized to define a few things they weren't familiar with, such as explaining what "slop" was and that "enticing aromas" meant "really good smells". The groups that had the...more
Oct 24, 2008
Hailey
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
little kids, but also people who like fun books that they can enjoy
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This book is just plain fun. I love the stretch of belief that comes with the recurring line--"Though nobody was quite certain ..." If you love the picture book Click, Clack, Moo, you'll likely enjoy this farmyard fantasy as well. (Though Click, Clack, Moo tops the charts in my opinion.) If you love Mexican food (as I do), you'll enjoy Chicks and Salsa all the more!
The chickens on Nuthatcher Farm start a trend. They are tired of their chicken feed and the rooster helps them make salsa. Soon after the rooster is helping all of the other animals make something on Nuthatcher Farm. This book could be used to introduce how writing starts off as a plan then continues on to something great, just like what happened to the animals.
I didn't like this book very much. I couldn't get interested in the story line and I didn't think that it ended in a very good way. I writing just wasn't interesting to me. The illustrations in the book are bright and vibrant though. I did really like that recipes were added to the back of the book.
Chicks and Salsa, by Aaron Reynolds, is another Illinois Monarch Nominee Book. The Kindergarten students were hungry for Mexican food once the story was finished! The chicks along with a few other barnyard critters are tired of eating the same old food on Nuthatcher Farm. The rooster discovers a way to change it and the fun & food begin! By the end of the book you'll be planning a Mexican meal and shouting, "ole!!"
The barnyard animals at the Nuthatcher Farm decided their usual fare is too boring...so they decide to make chips and salsa, nachos, and guacamole, even though no one is quite sure where they got their supplies.
Colorful, bright illustrations accompany the extremely humorous story.
Colorful, bright illustrations accompany the extremely humorous story.
So we might be slow in our family, it took us a couple of reads to find out who was feeding the animals ideas. My daughter loved the silliness of it. On the cover there are some recipes, we are interested in trying. It really is a great book to snuggle up and read together!
Aaron Reynolds came to the school I worked at and I was able to see him read the book. AND he made salsa for everyone! Even my little pre-schoolers liked it. The book is fun, the illustrations are fantastic and I'm excited to use it in future lessons as an SLP!
Chicks and Salsa is an inviting story about curiosity and food! Children will love the Mexican flavor added to the story. This book could be ideal for making predictions. Emphasizing the illustrations will help predict who will eat what next!
This is a wonderful story about how the chickens start changes on the farm. It has great pictures and is written very well as a read aloud book. I highly recommend this book. In fact, we may need to add it to our personal library.
Funny book. My kids LOVE it. We love Mexican food, so this one brings great memories of some great meals we've had. It ends with a French flair. This book could be used to start a lesson on cultures.
My kids love when I read this book. They think it's hilarious when we all say "Ole!" at the right time and the twist at the end cracks them up. Very fun story and we'll have to try the recipes too.
Apr 30, 2008
Anita
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
anyone with young children, especially picky eaters
Shelves:
children-s
My two older children really enjoyed this book because these animals are doing something that the children know animals shouldn't be doing. They laughed when they saw the illustrations and when they saw how the animals were getting certain items, like chips for the salsa. There isn't really a moral to the story. It's just a fun book which also can help children realize that it's okay to try some new foods. Something different than the same old thing they always eat. Also, on the hardcover editio...more
The animals on the farm were tired of eating the same food. With the help of the produce from the farm they were able to spice things up with some Mexican recipes!
My son absolutely loved this book when he was a little guy. Bought copies for all of his buddies and the church library. What a big hit with the kids!
Maybe 3.5 stars, as it wasn't all that special. Awfully darn cute, though, with a nice rhythm to read aloud, and three delicious healthy recipes in the back!
Nov 28, 2010
Stacy
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Preschoolers and early readers
Recommended to Stacy by:
Between the Lions
Shelves:
stacy
My kids LOOOOOVE this book! The 1yo makes me read it to him every time he sees it! They all love to yell "Ole!" with me after the animals try new foods.
cute story of resourceful farm animals thinking outside of the box when it comes to their meals! great pictures and you can't go wrong w/ the recipes either.
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