Interrupting Chicken: Cookies for Breakfast

Ages 4 to 8, Grades P to 3

Wake up! The little red chicken is hungry—and sillier than ever—in her latest star turn since debuting in the Caldecott Honor Book Interrupting Chicken.

It’s bright and early on a Saturday morning, and the little red chicken wants cookies for breakfast. What better way to persuade Papa than by jarring him awake and gleefully interjecting cookies—and herself!—into every nursery rhyme they read together? Though the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe heartily endorses the little red chicken’s plan, Papa has his own idea for a sweet breakfast for his determined daughter. Featuring the same riotous charm and bright, bold art as Interrupting Chicken and Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise, David Ezra Stein’s third installment will have any fan with a sweet tooth and a love of meta rhyme clamoring to find out: will the early bird get the cookie?

About the Author

David Ezra Stein is the author-illustrator of many picture books, including Leaves, winner of an Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award; Interrupting Chicken, a Caldecott Honor Book; and Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise. He lives in Kew Gardens, New York.