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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A little dark humor can be fun, and my bigger kids cracked up over this story about a chicken that gets hit by a truck crossing the road and heads to the "other side" as a ghost. When a chicken crosses the road to get to the other side, and is struck by an eighteen-wheeler, he finds that he's arrived at the OTHER SIDE instead. Now a ghost, surrounded by other animal ghosts, he is told that his duty as a Poultrygeist is to scare and haunt. But our galline hero has no interest in such activities... Long-time children's book editor Eric Geron makes his own picture-book debut with Poultrygeist, a darkly humorous take on that old joke about the chicken crossing the road to get to the other side. The story is told entirely through dialogue (some of it directed to the reader/listener) and image, making it a good read-aloud selection, I think. The digital artwork from Pete Oswald is lots of fun, with almost all of the scenes dominated by dark black pages, and colorful animal ghosts which pop off those pages. I can see this one being a little traumatic for some youngsters, and hilarious for others, so the adult involved, whether parents or teacher, should bear this in mind. Recommended to picture-book readers looking for stories with a dark sense of humor, and a meta-fictional bent. no reviews | add a review
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After meeting his demise crossing the road, Chicken comes back as a noisy troublemaking ghost, and knowing that scaring people is bad, decides to transform himself into a friendly ghost. No library descriptions found.
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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