Chookity Chook and the Runaway Egg
Chookity Chook and the Runaway Egg
The egg is rolling. The barnyard is chasing. The fox is watching. Hold on to your britches.
Broody Beth’s egg has made a break for it: zigging, zagging, boinging off buckets and whooshing through haystacks while the entire barnyard gives chase. Not Chookity Chook, not Lucy Goosey, not even a galloping horse can catch it. In the end, it takes a fort made of pancakes, a very gooey dam and one spectacular ker-splat. Then the egg goes CRACK, and the barnyard’s newest, noisiest, zoomiest resident introduces himself.
A rollicking, rhyming read-aloud chase, a chick called Zoomie Zoom Zoom, and a fox who slinks off hungry (for now). Book three from the barnyard: they’ll be yelling “WHEEE!” before you reach the pancakes.
Chookity Chook and the Runaway Egg
The egg is rolling. The barnyard is chasing. The fox is watching. Hold on to your britches.
Broody Beth’s egg has made a break for it: zigging, zagging, boinging off buckets and whooshing through haystacks while the entire barnyard gives chase. Not Chookity Chook, not Lucy Goosey, not a galloping horse can catch it. In the end it takes a fort made of pancakes, a very gooey dam, and one spectacular ker-splat. And then the egg goes CRACK, and the barnyard’s newest, noisiest, zoomiest resident introduces himself.
A galloping read-aloud chase, a chick called Zoomie Zoom Zoom, and a fox who slinks off hungry (for now). Book three from the barnyard: they’ll be yelling “WHEEE!” before you reach the pancakes.
ISBN: 9781922981165
Illustrator : Yogesh
Recommended age: 3 - 7yrs
Themes: Friendship, pride, forgiveness, humour, rhyme
Audio edition: No
Publication date: 2027
Dorothy Dowling is an Australian children’s author, midwife and nurse from the South West of Western Australia. Her stories began long before her books did. When her son Alex was three, they kept chooks, and Dorothy would invent tales for him out loud: silly ones, told again and again. He was her most exacting critic, and revisions were made on demand. Nearly twenty years on, and three years after Alex’s tragic death at seventeen, she published his favourite, Chookity Chook, to preserve and continue the goodness he gave so freely. Every book since carries his laughter, and every one is read-aloud tested: written to be just as good on the two-hundredth reading as the first. A career midwife who has built early-childhood health services across outback Australia, Dorothy writes for the wonder she has spent her life around. Her stories roam from a mischievous farmyard, the incredible Outback, to the sea garden beneath the famous Busselton Jetty, where Monty the pelican and his quietly hidden friend Gerald await sharp-eyed readers.
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Yougesh Mahajan
Inside the Book
A peek into the colorful world of Chookity Chook and his Friends
Meet the Characters
The colorful cast of Chookity Chook and his Friends and one Sneaky Fox.
Chookity Chook
Dame Edna Duck
Lamby Loo
Foxy Loxy
