Wicked Chickens

by Vivian French, John Bradley (Illustrator)

Spooky or funny, surprising or frightening, SHOCK SHOP is a collection of brand new novels by some of the greatest names in children's writing. WICKED CHICKENS Charlie's Dad wins at Bingo and at last his dream can come true - a cottage with roses at the door and chickens scratching in the yard, laying lovely brown eggs...or so he thinks. It's a disaster! The family ends up having to rent and their four 'dream' chickens are scrawny, bad-tempered things. And suddenly, instead of four, there are ten. And the next day fifteen. They start pecking at the windows, staring in with their beady eyes. And then there are twenty chickens...twenty-five...thirty...The wicked chickens have come home to roost!

96 pages, Paperback

First published March 7, 2003

About the author

Vivian June Isoult French MBE was born in 1945 and educated at Exeter University.
Vivian French was best known in school for being extremely skinny and for talking a lot. At school she developed an attachment to words and later became an actor, then a storyteller, and finally a writer of children's books. She is the author of more than two hundred books. Ms. French lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, and has four grown daughters.

Reviews

[Amanda Stella · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kind of cute kids' book. Thought the illustrations were great!

[Mirko Liang · Rating 2 out of 5]

Little story, not terribly funny but still an okay reading

[Harold Walters · Rating 2 out of 5]

Children's? Some kind of wicked British comic piece. (Listen, I grew up with hens. I know their nature.)