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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #293575 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 40 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780152053062
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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From School Library Journal
Starred Review. Kindergarten-Grade 3—Pauline Poulet reveals all in this tale of adventure. After hearing the farmer plotting to put her in a chicken pie, the plucky hen escapes her dreary life of doing nothing but laying eggs and winds up in a scary wood. She outfoxes the fox chasing her, and her new motto is born: "Pauline, Prevail!" But things get worse when she falls into the river and is picked up by pirate cats; she barely escapes the bloodthirsty ship's cook and, after a slight problem with a hot-air balloon and a kite, she lands safely in a petting zoo, where she takes up residence happily ever after. Slack's digital mixed-media illustrations are wacky and cartoonish, and the text ripples with big, impressive words befitting the exaggerated nature of Pauline's adventures: "I navigate high altitudes,/an aeronaut with fortitude./Above me burns a blaze of stars,/below the view blurs fast and far." Language-arts teachers will have a field day with this one, and the tone and zany sensibilities of the story and pictures are a perfect match for the funny bones of an early elementary audience.—Kathleen Kelly MacMillan, Carroll County Public Library, MD
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From Booklist
Pauline Poulet is a frantic little bird with a perilous life that includes escapes from boredom, frying pans, foxes, pirates, and typhoons. The pace of this hen's hyperbolic storytelling is so fast that the text careens past occasional forced rhymes, rhythms, and even reason. The digital mixed-media illustrations ably exaggerate the tall-tale elements of the story. Slack's saturated palette is enhanced by the use of highlights and shadows to emphasize specific visual elements--rolling eyes and mobile mouths express the personalities of the players, from poulet to pirate. Images and text are used together to balance the compositions, and vigorous, emphatic use of line adds energy to each spread. A variety of typefaces and exclamatory text in an assortment of colors and sizes adds to the rollicking humor of Pauline's perils. The lengthy text may slow down some readers, but the art is strong enough to pick them up and carry them along. Janice Del Negro
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The Perils of Pauline

'But round my roost I hear suspicious Words like Chicken Pie, Delicious . . . ' Pauline Poulet begins her autobiography as a typical chick, resigned to peep and peck and do what chickens do best: lay eggs. But one day, she spies The Farmer drooling over "101 Chicken Recipes" and knows he is contemplating murder most fowl. Now she must choose: be Plucky or Plucked. So with a brawk and a squawk, it's hens, away! Pauline flies the coop as fast as her tasty drumsticks will carry her. Life isn't easy, however, on the other side of the picket fence. In from-frying-pan-into-the-fire fashion, she faces a carton of bad eggs: snarling foxes, hungry hawks, even peg-legged pirates, all with omelets on their minds. But Pauline prevails, landing `wilted, wounded, weak of wing' in the arms of some very special rescuers. Award-winning poet Ellen Kelley has hatched a hilarious, heart-ful tale with rollicking rhythms, active alliterations, and a rhyming text that snaps and cackles and begs to be read aloud. Michael Slack's wacky illustrations (take a gander at Pauline's eye-lashed, egg-like eyes!) match the energy and excitement and kid-friendly humor that will have all the chickadees in your roost chuckling and clucking for more.

Beautiful illustrations
Although the story is good, the artwork is amazing. Beautifully done textures and colors. My sisters each bought a copy for their children and it is unanimous - thumbs up all around.

Funny, but not great
I purchased this book after reading such positive reviews but actually ended up returning it. I can see that it may be charming but it's a little frightening at the same time. The chicken is avoiding being killed I just find that a little too violent for my four year old.