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Chen creates outfits made of wildly imaginative flowers whose petals are butterfly
wings, architectural flourishes and ordinary roman letters. The trash costume will
produce the biggest guffaws: the featherless chicken finds himself adorned with a fork,
a scrap of printed paper, a lovely ink curlicue, all topped off with a soup can hat. Chen
never lets his moral lessons get in the way of a good time.
--------- Publishers Weekly
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With
the same gentle humor and sensitivity to children that he
showed in Guji Guji, Chen introduces a young featherless
chicken. Not only does this poor creature get cold when the
wind blows, but he's also afflicted with miserable
allergies. One day, he sees four beautifully feathered
chickens on their way to go boating. He asks if he can join
them, but they shun his unadorned looks. Then, thanks to a
muddy puddle, bits of this and that, and a jaunty tin-can
hat, he is transformed into a beautifully adorned fowl, and
the others invite him to come along.
During a flap about which chicken is the most handsome, the
newly fancy fellow lets out a terrible sneeze, and the boat
capsizes. The dunking leaves all five chickens featherless
and frolicking together. The chickens' comic expressions and
their colorful feathers are perfectly rendered in Chen's
soft palate of earth tones and subtle splashes of color on
thick, creamy paper. The text is set in a type writer like
font that adds to the style and overall charm of this
memorable outing.( Genevieve Gallagher )
-------School Library Journal
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