"In telling these heartwarming tales of resilience, compassion and love, Crawford avoids the more brutal realities of factory farming, showing simply that these farms are extremely unhappy places for such intelligent and emotional beings. With a light touch (and much onomatopoeia), Crawford offers compassion and insight on farm-animal rescues. Stangl's teardrop-shaped fowl further endear as they peer out from the pages with big eyes and bobbling bodies. Readers will happily learn along with Mateo, using the intriguing list of chicken facts appended at the end. Mateo renames Hen "Gwen" and learns to care for her and her friends, whom he finds and brings home. Luckily she meets Mateo, a tan-skinned, brown-haired boy who has a penchant for chickens. But there are also new dangers to fear: barking dogs and zooming motorcycles.
When she touches down ("CLONK!"), she is amazed to see a world of color and tasty grass. A tornado rips the roof off of the barn ("KABOOM!") and takes Hen's cage swirling with it. Suddenly a roaring sound fills the air ("HOWOOOOH!"). But like the other chickens in the cages that line the pitch-black barn, she is part of an egg farm, so the only flying she can do is in her dreams. Crammed into a tiny cage, with hardly any room to move, Hen longs to stretch her wings and fly.
Review:Ĭhickens in a factory farm get an unexpected chance at a better life. She studied multimedia art in Salzburg and now lives and works in Vienna, where she happily illustrates stories for books and animation. Sonja Stangl is an artist and illustrator from Austria. Leslie loves any excuse to write and speak about topics relating to sustainable food, animal welfare, and children’s books. A vegetarian but in no way a self-righteous one, as she likes to point out, Crawford thinks of the her ongoing children’s book series as gentle reminders that all farm animals are worthy of respect. Crawford became a writer instead, producing stories for San Francisco Magazine, Salon, Metropolitan, and many other publications and websites before channeling her farming aspirations into a story about a hen who finds her way out of a cramped cage into a life of adventure with a young boy. That didn’t happen, though she does have six chickens and five rescue pigeons in her San Francisco home. Leslie Crawford always thought she’d wind up living in the country raising vegetables and animals on a farm straight out of Charlotte’s Web.
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