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A culminating rhyme of Chicken’s own devising fails to convince Papa of the merits of cookies for breakfast, but he has another treat in store for his little chick: pancakes.Ī sweet and silly read for any time of day. Papa and Chicken’s scenes are done in rich, full color, while the nursery-rhyme pages are done as bleached-out cartoons. On the next page they sit down to a cozy snack of tea and cookies. She had so many - // ‘Cookies, she gave me a few!’ ” yells Chicken, jumping in through the window and startling the old woman, who’s just taken a sheet of cookies out of the oven. “There was an old woman / who lived in a shoe. The improvised, inserted rhymes persist in their advocacy of cookies for breakfast, and the series’ trademark metafictive play of books within a book depicts familiar Mother Goose characters startled by Chicken’s intrusion (with cookies) into their rhymes. This latest title takes place in the morning, and a wide-awake Chicken struggles to rouse Papa from bed with appeals for “cookies for breakfast.” He resists this blandishment but acquiesces to a request for a snuggly reading of nursery rhymes-which Chicken, of course, interrupts. Readers were first introduced to Stein’s character when the irrepressible little red chicken had a hard time settling down at bedtime despite Papa’s dogged efforts to calm his offspring with some fairy tales.

The titular fowl is back, just in time for breakfast.