num_pages: 40
description: Meet one smart chicken chaser. She can catch any chicken on her grandmother's farm except one - the elusive Miss Hen. In a hilarious battle of wits, the spirited narrator regales readers with her campaign to catch Miss Hen, but this chicken is "fast as a mosquito buzzing and quick as a fleabite." Our chicken chaser has her mind set on winning, until she discovers that sometimes it's just as satisfying not to catch chickens as it is to catch them.A fresh voice full of sass and inventive, bold collage illustrations full of surprises create a childlike escapade brimming with funny high jinks that leads the reader on a merry, memorable chase.The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
language: English
title: The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County
titlecomplete: The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County
genres: Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Cultural, Animals, Childrens, School, Picture Books, African American, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 511
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Charlotte Zolotow Award
category: Highly Commended Title, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Irma Black Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Alabama Author Award
category: Juvenile
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)