Rosie's Walk

The word sar every short and big for the pages. It helps draw early readers to learn to read with all the colors and details in the background. The colorts are bright such as reds and yellows and the fox keeps getting into accidents while following the hen. The illustrations are pen and markers.

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This is a great book for early readers with sort vocublary comprehensions.

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This book is great for interactive writing and I would use it for that purpose. It is the story of a hen and a fox . I feel that it is a good book for young students to read since they would be able to easily memorize it and feel confident in their reading skills while working on their writing

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skills afterward.

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A tale of a hen's casual walk around her farm and the fox who tries to eat her. The fox finds nothing but trouble and she pretends that she doesn't know he is there.

Rosie the Hen goes for a walk through the farm and is followed by a fox who clearly wants to eat her! She goes through the yard, past the mill, around the pond, over the haystack, under the beehives, and gets back in time for dinner. Meanwhile, the fox creeps behind her trying to catch her, but is

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a little clumsy and never successful. He trips over a rake and gets smacked in the head; he gets covered in flour as he passes the mill; he gets all wet in the pond; and, worst of all, he gets chased away at the end by the bees! Rosie is just as content as can be and does not realize for a minute that she is being followed.

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I had to really emphasize the pictures and have them help explain what happened to the fox each time, but they seemed to like the nice simple silly story.

So good for teaching prepositions, nice structure, nice end to the story, but ... the kids seem quite indifferent to Rosie and the hapless hungry fox.

I found this book entertaining. It reminded me of a cartoon, especially the Roadrunner and Coyote stories and how the Coyote always gets foiled. I would use this in a toddler storytime at a public library. I would hope that the little kids could see what's on the verge of happening to Rosie. This

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has aspects of postmodernism in that the reader can see the whole story but not the hen or the fox.

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I nice children's book about Rosie the hen evading a wily fox as she goes for a walk. Nice illustrations.

A Chicken, a fox, a handful of prepositions... and a lot more story than what's in the text!

It might be fun to try and review a picture book using as many words as are in the text. To do that, I would have to stop the review right here.

Some other time perhaps.

Rosie the end leaves her protected

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hutch and goes for a walk, unaware of a fox who has his eyes set on an easy lunch. In a single opening spread we are introduced to a protagonist, an antagonist, a plot and a subplot, a location, and already a rising tension. Will Rosie make it home safely? How will the fox be foiled? So much tension!

As the fox follows Rosie narrowly escape through a series of actions worthy of great Warner Brothers cartoons. The fox steps on a rake and is smashed in the face. He leaps and lands in a pond. As he lurks near the mill Rosie unknowingly sends a sack of flour onto the fox. Finally, due to a culmination of events, the fox has angered several hives worth of bees who run him off while Rosie happily, obliviously, returns home in time for dinner.

Or was she really that oblivious?

First, a little bit about the mechanics. Technically the book is one long sentence:

Rosie the hen went for a walk, across the yard, around the pond, over the haystack, past the mill, through the fence, under the beehives, and got back in time for dinner.

I've added the commas for reading clarity and to indicate page breaks, but the text does include only one capital letter and one period. And going by text alone you wouldn't think there was much of a story there, but this is what picture books are all about. The intermarriage of word and picture is what brings about the subplot, the unnamed and unmentioned fox who is stalking Rosie. The tension between the word and picture is echoed in the tension between what Rosie knows and what the reader knows. Really, this is more sophisticated than it appears on the surface.

Now, as for Rosie, she spends the entire book strutting across the page with her head up and a carefree look on her face.... or is it? Could it be that Rosie is aware of the fox and is deliberately taking him for the walk? This is where a clever book rewards rereaders with a different experience. On the first pass readers worry about Rosie by completing or recombining the narrative to gain meaning; on the second pass the reader already knows what to expect from the story and they use the visual cues to recombine the narrative into a totally new meaning. Even if after ever page turn the young reader turns back to look for the clues they missed that lead to the action they've just experienced they are composing new meaning. The first time it's "Look out, Rosie!" and the next time it's "Look out, fox!"

It would seem difficult to find fault with a picture book that does so much with so little, and yet, is it possible that the text is too long? Okay, so maybe we're entering crazyville here, but given that we don't need to be told she is being followed by a fox, do we need to know that Rosie is a hen? Look at the text above. If we remove "the hen" from the text nothing changes, and from the interplay between word and image it would still be clear which character the story was about. I'll grant, it's picking nits, but those two words constitute 1/16 of the text, so I want to be sure I understand their point and purpose.

The answer is as easy as reading the book both ways out loud. The answer is flow. Grammatically the sentence-text if fine without "the hen" but reading it aloud gives the opening a clipped hiccup that utterly destroys the narrative flow. So while far too often it can seem like a simple text could be shortened (and sometimes by as much as 50%) here the two "extraneous" words satisfy our ear and allow us to feel the rhythm of the story just as quickly as the images and their interplay with the text gives us all the information we need to know about the story.

So it is, that Rosie the hen leaves home and takes a heroes journey, facing (away from) trials and tribulations, to return home triumphantly in time for dinner. And as Sendak's Max has taught us, no doubt Rosie's dinner is still hot.

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A hen goes for a walk, unaware that a fox is following her.

The book is MUCH MUCH better than the scholastic video on the "chicka chicka boom" DVD. Don't miss this one, especially if your a fan of 1970's nostalgia.

This book is great for emergent readers! The book is much like a game for the reader and is very fun for children to follow along to.

Don't look behind you Rosie. There is a fox following you. Beautiful pictures as Rosie eludes the fox.

Rosie is a very clueless, very lucky hen. She takes a stroll around the farmyard, not knowing that the unlucky fox is on her tail-feathers in every scene! Though the words are few, the action takes place in the pictures, as we watch the fox land on a rake, fall in the pond, sink in the hay, etc. as

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Rosie continues on her way, oblivious to the fox.

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I'm sure I've read this one before, but it was a fun book to reread! Rosie outwits the fox without realizing it, and the illustrations are charming.

This humorous little picture-book, which relies on the contrast between text and image to produce its effect, follows Rosie the red hen as she sets out for a walk around the farm. The extremely brief narrative - the entire story is told in a single sentence - is calm and matter-of-fact, little more

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than a recitation of Rosie's itinerary. The illustrations, on the other hand, are colorful and exciting, depicting a sly fox on the hunt - for Rosie! Unfortunately, or fortunately (as the case may be), he keeps running into trouble, as Rosie walks heedlessly along. I'm glad my friend Kathryn recommended this - I never would have picked it up otherwise, and it really is a wonderful book. Rosie's Walk is one I highly recommend to younger preschool children who enjoy a funny story!

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Rosie the hen goes for a walk around the farm but unbeknownst to her, a fox is trying to catch her.

"Rosie's Walk" is about a chicken who goes on a walk and is stalked by a fox. Every time the fox gets close, something seems to happen to it to prevent it from getting to the chicken. In the end the chicken gets home safely.

I would use this book in my classroom as a prediction book and an

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anticipation book. I could ask questions like "do you think the fox will catch the chicken?"

Recommended age group: 3-6 years

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This book is about a chicken who goes for a walk around her farm. I like this book because of the great illustrations and the humor that it provides and would use this in my classroom as a recreational book. This book is suitable for the grades 1 and 2 and the main theme is caution.

Rosie the hen goes for a walk around the farm but unbeknownest to her, a fox is trying to catch her.

A great use of medium. The text is a single sentence, describing Rosie the hen's peaceful walk around the farm ("Rosie the hen went for a walk . . . and got back in time for dinner."), but the illustrations tell a different story: the whole time, a fox is pursuing her, intent on getting his own

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dinner. Humorous mishaps keep stopping him, and eventually he's chased off by a swarm of bees. The art is nice--red, orange, and yellow in the foreground and green in the background, usually with heavy borders, giving everything a sort of paper cutout look. Quite enjoyable.

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This book is about a chicken named Rosie and her walk through the farmyard. It provides a variety of descriptive directional words.

Very funny book- Rosie outsmarts the fox, which is shown in the pictures, not shared in the words.

Rosie is a hen who walks around the farm.