At the end of the book are some interesting facts about chickens (this is probably my favourite part of the book). Gwen slowly learns about the outside world and eventually befriends a young boy who takes her home with him. In the story, we follow Gwen, a hen who is displaced after a tornado rips through her home in a massive chicken farm. The cover and blurb looked promising, but the execution didn't quite work for me. Gwen the Rescue Hen is the second book in our Farm Animal Rescue Books for children. The book includes a bonus section called More About Chickens, where curious readers can learn that chickens have extraordinary eyesight, a complex language of 24 sounds, and are descended from dinosaurs, among other fun facts about chickens. Together they discover how extraordinary an ordinary chicken really is. Using her wits and chicken superpowers, Gwen dodges danger at every turn until she finds safety and friendship with a boy named Mateo. A fateful tornado turns her world upside-down and sideways, landing her in a strange new place that's nothing like the hen house. Gwen has spent her whole life in a big egg-laying hen house, so she knows very little about what chickens can do (besides lay eggs, of course). Winner of a Northern Lights Book Award for “children’s literature of exceptional merit,” Gwen the Rescue Hen is the heart-warming story about a sharp-witted chicken whose adventures inspire compassion for farm animals.
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