- Folklore, Animals, New York Times reviewed, Children's fiction
A newly illustrated edition of the classic fable of the hen who is forced to do all the work of baking bread and of the animals who learn a bitter lesson from it.
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Classical in form, earnest, spare and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Jerry Pinkney
- First published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Dial Books for Young Readers
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780803729353
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Jerry Pinkney (December 22, 1939 – October 20, 2021) was an American illustrator and writer of children's literature. Pinkney illustrated over 100 books since 1964, including picture books, nonfiction titles and novels. Pinkney's works addressed diverse themes and were usually done in watercolors. In 1994, Pinkney obtained the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for the book John Henry and he has received five Coretta Scott King Awards for illustration. In 2010, he received the Caldecott Medal for his book The Lion & the Mouse. His book A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation (2019), illustrated by Pinkney and written by Barry Wittenstein, won the Orbis Pictus
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