Louise, The Adventures of a Chicken

Inside Louise the chicken beats the heart of a true adventurer. Louise leaves her cozy henhouse to travel the world, encountering pirates, a circus, and a middle-eastern bazaar until she finally decides that home is where she wants to stay.

LibraryThing member ecugary

Kate DiCamillo's Louise, The Adventures of a Chicken provides an adventure story that reminds us that there's no place like home. Louise leaves the chicken coup to do battle with pirates and works in the circus to discover that although her life may be boring, adventure has its drawbacks. Children

will love Louise and the adeventures she takes in Louise, The Adventures of a Chicken.

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LibraryThing member samib

One of the best adventure picture books I've read! Louise the chicken goes on fun and exciting adventures. The art was the first thing that made this book stand out - really spectacular! The story is in 3 chapters, and high literary quality and repetition make this a stand out work of fiction.

Finally, it is very rare and thrilling to see adventure stories from the point of view of a girl, even if she is a chicken.

This is a great choice for storytimes or reading time in school or in the library. It can be especially noted for the female protagonist, to balance the usual male protagonist centered stories.

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LibraryThing member kpalmer07

This book tells the story of Louise, a chicken with a desire for adventure. In the book Louise travels the sees and ends up in the middle of a battle with pirates, she walks a wire at the circus and almost gets eaten by a lion, and lastly she travels to a faraway land and gets stolen by a stranger

and put in a cage with many chickens until she sets them all free. The one thing Louise realizes at the end of adventure is that home is best and where she always wants to return to.

Media: Ink and Wash

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LibraryThing member jaia

I LOVED this story of a chicken who just could not have enough adventures. She goes aboard a ship where she is captured by pirates, joins the circus, and finially travels to the middle east, where she is captured in a Bazaar. My favorite is when she becomes an activist-chicken when imprisioned in

the middle east and rallys the other chickens into escaping, clucking "chickens must roam free!"

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LibraryThing member judychadwick

This story is about a chicken who goes out looking for adventure and the home she comes back too.

LibraryThing member Viktoriya

Louise is no ordinary chicken. While life on the farm is good - there is a caring farmer and his wife, comfortable living quarters, and feathered friends like curious Monique - Louise sometimes longs to leave the farm, to leave the henhouse, and find true adventure.

Louise faces chicken-eating

pirates and shipwrecks, chicken-eating lions and high wire acts. She faces imprisonment in a foreign country with other chickens deprived their inalienable right to peck and scratch. But Louise always makes it home.

After all, even the most adventurous chicken sometimes likes to be safe and warm in the henhouse, nestled deeply into fresh straw, sleeping the 'deep and dreamless sleep of the true adventurer.'

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LibraryThing member dangerlibearian

Too long for read aloud, three chapters of Louise's adventures.

LibraryThing member gildallie

This is a funny book about the trials of Louise who is a bit of an extraordinary chicken in that she often leaves her hen house in the search of things more exciting- which she finds. From being captured by pirates to meeting a tall dark stranger in a far off marketplace- who shakes her and throws

her in a wire cage with several other clueless chickens. The story is wonderful and the illustrations are gorgeous realistic looking backdrops with a fun mix of rather cartoon looking characters.

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LibraryThing member h_clark

This was a wonderful, engaging story that had a spirit of adventure throughout. I think children will be inspired and will fall in love with Louise.

LibraryThing member aimtroyer

Louise, this lovable chicken, is always looking for adventure (pirates, storms, circus, etc) yet always elects to go home at night. Really wonderful story that could begin to teach the concept of chapters, or even paragraph placement (in the sense of starting a new concept).

LibraryThing member morgantk

I believe the storyline is the greatest strength. The pictures were done well, but I loved what adventures the author took a chicken through. I think children would relate well with the desire to have adventure in their lives.

LibraryThing member kdebros

A wonderful book. I love the dramatic illustrations which complement nicely with a tale that could easily become a bit too silly. As it is, it's a brilliant combination of adventure story and barnyard creature.

LibraryThing member johnstod

Bliss's artwork is a delight. There is so much to view in his scenes. Dicamillo writes with humor and thought in relating the theme of desired adventure versus safety of home.

LibraryThing member netaylor

Louise, an ordinary but free spirited and free ranged chicken finds herself on three wild adventures. She is a true adventurer as she braves pirates, a circus tight rope, and imprisonment in a strange land. The text and illustrations in this book work wonders to tell the humorous and adventurous

tales of Louise.

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LibraryThing member djmeyers

Kate Dicamillo does not disappoint in this creative story of a chicken that craves adventure! I loved that despite all her travels and crazy experiences, Louise ulitmately wanted to go back home to familiar surroundings and loving friends. What I most appreciated about this story was that Louise

did not just talk about her plans for adventure, but actually did them! She ends up inspiring other chickens with her stories, which probably effects at least one to step out of the barnyard!

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LibraryThing member ReadAloudDenver

A very adventurous chicken, Louise leaves the comfort and safety of the henhouse and first sets out into the deep seas with sailors and marauding pirates followed by a high wire act in a circus and executing her and her fellow chickens' escape from a locked cage in a bazaar. Louise always made it

safely back to the farm where in the end she tells the other chickens all about her adventures. This book has very rich vocabulary including: imprisoned, trembled, blarney, twilight, descent, bazaar, spectacularly, ringmaster, auditions and fricasee.

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LibraryThing member scote23

Odyssey Award Winner for Best Audiobook 2010

I read this book along with the audiobook and I thought it was pretty cute. I thought there were better audiobooks last year (Marcelo in particular) but the book is cute. Louise isn't like the other chickens. She longs for adventure and boy does she get

it!

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LibraryThing member AbigailAdams26

Louise the chicken is adventure-bound in the three stories presented in this picture-book from two-time Nebery medalist Kate DiCamillo. In episode one Louise goes to sea, enduring a pirate attack and shipwreck in the course of her sailing life. In the second installment, she joins the circus as a

tightrope walker, narrowly avoiding being eaten by the circus lion when she falls from her high perch. In the third and final tale, Louise finds her way to a far country (Near Eastern, by the look of it), where she is imprisoned by the tall, dark stranger about whom she'd been warned by a fortune-teller, and must make her escape.

In each of the three stories in Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken, our heroine is led by a sense of wanderlust out into the world, and by a sense of homesickness and longing for peace and security back to her own farm. I found it interesting that in the final story, the point is made that chickens should be allowed to wander free, rather than living constricted lives in cramped quarters. Perhaps a commentary on modern agricultural production? It was also interesting to note that Louise turns from adventurer to storyteller at the close of the book, sharing the joys and terrors of her travels with her friends at home. I'm not sure that this is destined to be a favorite - it was pleasant, but mostly unremarkable - but I was interested to see what DiCamillo, whose novels for older children are so accomplished, would do with the picture-book form. Recommended to anyone looking for picture-books featuring characters who march to the beat of their own drummer.

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LibraryThing member Ebarclift13

This is a fantasy story of a chicken who goes on many adventures. Each day she leaves her safe and comfortable henhouse to set out on wild adventures such as a journey on a ship, performing in a circus, and being taken prisoner. After each adventure she always comes back to the henhouse, keeps her

adventure a secret to the other hens and again sets out on another adventure. Following her final adventure she finally comes back to the henhouse and stays there sharing all her crazy adventures with the other hens/chickens.

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LibraryThing member Jill.Haner

This also may be an early reader, as it has chapters. I like the story that Louise finds adventure rather dangerous and would rather be at home, but that she keeps trying. She wants to find an adventure that suits her. I like that she's brave enough to try new things, but willing to move on when

she discovers that its not a good fit for her.
The artwork is delightful. A chicken without beady eyes, and fantastic eyelashes. The muted colors used for background bring forth Louise. She is the only white on the page, so she is always the focal point of each page and chapter.
This is another book my nieces loved. Especially when she was at the circus and we had to turn the book vertical to see Louise at the tippy top and the audience at the very bottom. It was a very clever scene.

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LibraryThing member bp0128bd

great read-along from DiCamillo. Louise longs for adventure so she finds herself in ridiculous (for a chicken) situations. She eventually tires of the adventure and goes back home...until she gets that itch to do something spectacular.

LibraryThing member scote23

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LibraryThing member Phill242

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