Though I love to celebrate my friends’ new books no matter where they live, it’s eggs-tra special fun to celebrate the folks who live in my neck of the woods, like Kelly Jones! Her newest book, Are You Ready To Hatch an Unusual Chicken (Yearling), is the much anticipated sequel to the utterly charming Unusual… Read more »
Kelly Jones is one versatile writer. I first met her through her charming debut novel Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer. Now she takes us back in time with her new novel, Murder, Magic and What We Wore (Knopf Books for Young Readers), which School Library Journal (in a starred review!) called “a cross… Read more »
I just finished this book: And I loved it! I think you will, too. Even if you aren’t fond of chickens, you will fall for Sophie Brown’s chickens. They are, well, the title of the book says it all: unusual. And so is the enterprising and industrious Sophie, who misses her Abuelita so much after the Brown… Read more »