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Chickabella and the Rainbow Magic (The Adventures of Chickabella Book 1)

Veronica Strachan,

Cassi Strachan (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator)

4.33 · Rating details · 6 ratings · 5 reviews

Are you looking for a colourful story to read aloud with your kids?

Join Chickabella as she waves her mother's magic wand over her pesky siblings and discovers a rainbow of results.

Little ones will love looking at the colourful pictures and joining in with making the shapes and sounds of what each diversely named chick wants to be when they grow up.

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Kindle Edition, 15 pages

Published September 20th 2019 by True Dialogue

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Jun 24, 2020 Marichus Real rated it really liked it

A good introduction to colours using the rainbow. Chickabella and her siblings’ wishes for the future are not really real jobs, but they have good intentions. The bright colours would make children and even the little ones enjoy the pictures.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and I am voluntarily leaving a review.

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Apr 09, 2020 Emily Wrayburn rated it it was amazing

Shelves: aussie-books, fiction

Love the bright colours and easy to follow story in this first Chickabella book! And there was the look on my young niece's face when she unwrapped it as her Christmas present last year and exclaimed "Chicken!"

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May 31, 2020 Sarah Katherine added it

This is a lovely story full of magic and mystery. The colours and bright pictures make this an exciting book for young children. It is a great book for young children to join in on reading as they can guess animals by using the picture clues and follow along with the repetitive nature of the text.

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May 31, 2020 lesley thornton rated it it was amazing

This is such a lovely book, so thoughtfully written. I love that that it inspires children to use their imagination and the illustrations are delightful.

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Jun 25, 2020 Jamie Jack rated it it was ok

Shelves: p-2020, childrens

Not Quite Sure What to Make of It...

I read and review a lot of children's books, including picture books. Perhaps I have gotten too accustomed to picture books that have a lesson, whether that's about how to deal with your emotions or showing the importance of the environment, etc. So, I found myself scratching my head, wondering at the purpose of this book. It's essentially a couple of pages of one chicken sibling asking her brothers and sisters what they want to be when they grow up. They don' ...more

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