Chicken Ten Thousand

by Jacqueline Jackson

Chicken Ten Thousand was just like nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine others hatched in the artificial hatcher until she escaped from the egg factory and discovered what the life of a hen should be.

31 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1968

About the author

Jacqueline Jackson is a retired Professor of English from the University of Illinois at Springfield. She also taught children's literature at Kent State University. She has four daughters: Damaris (deceased), Gillian, Elspeth, and Megan.

Ms. Jackson's for young readers are Julie's Secret Sloth, The Paleface Redskins, Chicken Ten Thousand, The Ghost Boat, and The Taste of Spruce Gum, a Notable Children's Book of 1966. In addition, Jacqueline has received the Dorothy Canfield Fisher children's book award. She considers her books Stories from the Round Barn and More Stories from the Round Barn to be her best work.

Reviews

[Sue Norris]

Fabulous picture book about a factory raised chicken, 1#0,000, who falls off a truck taking her to market. For the first time she discovers sunshine, grass, dirt and all the joys of chicken life. She lays an egg which doesn't fall through wires onto a conveyor belt, but hatches into a chick. And in her heart chicken 10,000 was content.

[Arwen]

I remember my mother reading this to me at bedtime. Jacquie Jackson was our favorite children's author.