AHA, I dug a little more in the hencam.com website and found her list of chicken children's books. I hope she doesn't mind my copying and pasting it here:
Children's Books
Chickens are comical and some of the best childrens' book authors and illustrators have created books that are fun to have. Here are my favorites. Please contact me if you have a suggestion to add to this list!
How the Ladies Stopped the Wind
by Bruce McMillan, illustrated by Gunella
2007
This is the second book by McMillan and Gunella about the ladies of Iceland and their chickens. The chickens are crucial to the plot as "It was the chickens' job to make fertilizer for the trees. They did their job very well."
Obviously, the author knows chickens!
Chicky Chicky Chook Chook
by Cathy MacLennan
2007
This is just the sort of book that you want to read again and again to the very young who are just beginning to enjoy sounds and language. "Splitter, splatter. Wet. Wet. Wetter." There are darling yellow chicks and hens with striped and polka-dotted combs. They're not anatomically correct - but they've got that silly chicken look.
Minerva Louiseby Janet Morgan Stoeke
1988
Minerva Louise reminds me of our hen Snowball -- she's inquisitive, cheerfully innocent and totally silly. Janet Morgan Stoeke has written 11 delightful picture books about this hen. Perfect for children, but also welcome in any household that loves chickens.
These are all of the Minerva Louise books:
A Hat for Minerva LouiseMinerva Louise at the FairMinerva Louise at SchoolMinerva Louise and the Red TruckA Friend for Minerva LouiseRainy DayMinerva Louise The Mixed-Up HenMinerva Louise and the Colorful EggsHide-and-Seek
Daisy Comes Homeby Jan Brett
2002
Jan Brett is an author/illustrator of beautiful children's books. She also raises Silkies and is involved in a Bantam Club. Daisy Comes Home is about a chicken in China who gets lost and eventually finds her way back home.
The Problem With Chickens by Bruce McMillan
illustrated by Gunnella
2005
This is a very funny and silly book about chickens in a village in Iceland. There are charming illustrations of large women in aprons having tea with chickens and exercising with chickens, and, you'll have to read the story to believe it, letting themselves on ropes down a cliff and collecting chicken eggs. Delightful.
Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?
(Many illustrator-authors)
Dial Books for Young Readers, 2006
Fourteen talented children's book illustrators come up with answers to this age-old question. Very funny.
Also worth finding are:
Hattie and the Fox by Mem Fox
Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins
