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School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2012 | Grades 5-up
Gr 4–6—Urban chickens are all the rage these days, with coops and hen runs sprouting up along with beans and tomatoes in veggie patches. However, the demands of poultry-keeping can prove onerous, and neighbors might complain even when the birds are legal-so, what to do? A place like Chicken Run Rescue is the ideal answer. Heppermann's chatty, anecdote-filled text records the efforts of a Minneapolis couple to rescue unwanted and abandoned chickens and relocate them. Like many rescue oper...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2012
[Books by Horn Book Magazine reviewing staff are not reviewed; we here instead provide a notice of publication and...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
An endearing account of a home-based shelter for chickens in Minneapolis. Clear first-hand accounts of the shelter's origins, why and how ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on August 1, 2012
Children will be drawn to the unique, attractively presented subject matter and will empathize with the chickens and their situations. Christine Heppermann’s engaging narrative describes how Chicken Run Rescue began (in 2001, with news that six roosters saved from a cockfighting bust would be euthanized because no one wanted them), provides Mary Britton Clouse and her husband’s backstories (they have always ta...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
