Nothing a Few Chickens Can’t Fix: Adam Rex and Adam Rubin on Gladys the Magic Chicken

Chickens. They’re not just for dinner anymore. Just now I was going to write something along the lines of “2021 has been a good year for chickens” and back it up with examples of books like Mr. Watson’s Chickens or Egg Marks the Spot, but then I remembered. EVERY year is a good chicken year. Seriously, I challenge you to find a year in children’s book publishing where chickens did play a significant role in some kind of book. Like bears and bunnies, chickens are particular picture book stapl...