TIME-TRAVELING CHICKENS
Nugget and Tenders's Eggcellent Adventure
A Star Chapter Book #2
by Kaz Windness
Simon Spotlight
Science Fiction / Graphic Novel
112 pages
ages 5 to 9
COMING NOVEMBER 24th!!!
Star Chapter Books are the perfect bridge for kids moving beyond beginning readers but not yet ready for longer chapter books. With short chapters, bold two-color illustrations, and fast-paced, funny stories, these confidence-building books make reading fun and rewarding.
Two chicken friends use their time machine to foil an evil plot for world domination in this second tale in the rollicking Time-Traveling Chickens series from Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor–winning author-illustrator Kaz Windness!
Nugget and Tenders discover that evil scientists are hatching a plan for world domination—and chicken is definitely on the menu! To make matters worse, the fowl friends’ baby chick, Waffles, has been kidnapped by the scientist ringleader. Nugget and Tenders are going to need help from the greatest minds in history to rescue Waffles and stop the scientists, so they fire up their time machine and jump through history to recruit the perfect team. Can they work quickly enough to save their baby…and the world?
Each Star Chapter Book is 112 pages long, divided into six to eight short chapters with illustrated panels on every page to keep kids engaged from start to finish. This highly visual early chapter book format supports the transition from leveled readers to chapter books, making Star Chapter Books a perfect fit for independent reading, classroom libraries, or shared story time.
Look for more Star Chapter Books adventures to help kids grow confident and develop a love of reading, including the chickens’ first adventure, Bawk to the Future!
Two chicken friends use their time machine to foil an evil plot for world domination in this second tale in the rollicking Time-Traveling Chickens series from Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor–winning author-illustrator Kaz Windness!
Nugget and Tenders discover that evil scientists are hatching a plan for world domination—and chicken is definitely on the menu! To make matters worse, the fowl friends’ baby chick, Waffles, has been kidnapped by the scientist ringleader. Nugget and Tenders are going to need help from the greatest minds in history to rescue Waffles and stop the scientists, so they fire up their time machine and jump through history to recruit the perfect team. Can they work quickly enough to save their baby…and the world?
Each Star Chapter Book is 112 pages long, divided into six to eight short chapters with illustrated panels on every page to keep kids engaged from start to finish. This highly visual early chapter book format supports the transition from leveled readers to chapter books, making Star Chapter Books a perfect fit for independent reading, classroom libraries, or shared story time.
Look for more Star Chapter Books adventures to help kids grow confident and develop a love of reading, including the chickens’ first adventure, Bawk to the Future!
MY TIDBITS
Nugget and tender humor meets historical figures and quirky adventure to form a read which even time can't categorize.
Nugget and Tender can't believe it—chicken is back on the menu! An evil scientist has plans to use the perfect chicken, Nugget and Tender's chick, to rule the world. Nugget and Tender can only jump into the time traveling chicken bucket and try to stop the horrible plans, but time-travel is a tricky thing, and they find themselves everywhere...and nowhere useful. Meanwhile, their poor chick is about to be used, but then, the evil scientist isn't exactly as hard as everyone thought. Instead, there's another super villain behind all of it, and his plans are truly monstrous.
I didn't read the first book in the series, but that wasn't an issue, since this one is no problem to sink right into. This is a very quirky adventure with an unique humor surrounding chickens, life and food, robots, time travel, evil plans, and...well, so much more. It took me a few pages to settle into the humor and adventure, but the characters are easy to like. While action and adventure drive every scene forward, there's also historical goodness woven in. The author incorporates some of the brightest, female scientists into the weirdness and has them helping in unexpected ways. Did you know a time-traveling chicken bucket might need repair? Well, these women might be just right for that and many other jobs.
The graphics are in shades of white and gray with just a detail or two in each scene highlighted in bright red. It works very well with the chicken tale and gives the world an unique visual atmosphere to fit the quirky plot. The text works well for those readers, who are sure of their words but need a little more practice before hitting middle grade reads. Still, the influx of the historical figures does lean toward knowledge of middle graders. So, this book works for both age groups.
This one is for those readers, who love humor and adventure...and are looking for something different.
And here she is...
Kaz Windness is the author-illustrator of picture books Swim, Jim!; Bitsy Bat, School Star; Bitsy Bat, Team Star; and Bitsy Bat, Snow Star. She created the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Level 1 Ready-to-Read Graphics book Worm and Caterpillar Are Friends, and its sequel, Worm and Butterfly Are Friends, Always; the Star Chapter Book Time Traveling Chickens series; and the Level 1 Ready-to-Reads Cat vs. Vac; Go! Go! Dino!; and Squid in Pants. Kaz is also the illustrator of Ollie, the Acorn, and the Mighty Idea by Andrew Hacket and the author of When You Love a Book, illustrated by Heather Brockman Lee. Kaz lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband, two children, and Boston terrier. Visit her at WindnessBooks.com.
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