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The Chicken Problem
Full of humor, refreshingly original characters, and math problems that young readers will be clamoring to help solve, The Chicken Problem is an ideal addition to the home or classroom. Left-brained Peg and her right-brained pal, Cat, are enjoying a picnic on the farm with Pig. However, when someone leaves the chicken coop open and the chicks run-a-muck, it's up to Peg and Cat to use their math skills to help solve their poultry predicament.
32 pages, Library Binding
First published September 25, 2012
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Jennifer Oxley
37 books4 followersJennifer Oxley is an author, illustrator, television writer/director, and the recipient of multiple Emmy Awards for her work on Nick Jr.’s Little Bill and as co-creator of PBS’s Peg+Cat. Jennifer lives and works in New York City as an independent filmmaker and artist.
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August 30, 2012
This book has a beautiful layout, and charming illustrations with a story that will have small children laughing. I found it to be funny, but the problem was also resolved much too quickly and without any insight from the main character-just her cat. Cat solved the problem by simply looking around- not by any use of imagination or problem solving skills. Or perhaps that's the message; that the solution to a problem could be right in front of you. Certainly a good message, but I think the author could have gone a step further. Also includes the possibility for nice math tie-ins.
December 5, 2012
I was once in Prospect Park in Brooklyn when I passed a very small child wearing a porkpie hat running as fast as his chubby legs could carry him. Behind him his father yelled out (to little avail), "Pontius! Pontius, slow down!" I mention this because there is a particular Brooklyn aesthetic to a picture book like The Chicken Problem. Consider, if you will, its heroine Peg. Here she is sporting a mighty trendy little outfit replete with striped tights and buckled red boots. Even her name, Peg, suggests that she was named after Peggy Lee or someone of equal caliber. Notice too that she's playing a ukulele on the endpapers and that pretty much clinches it. Peg is trendy. Too trendy for your preschooler? Not in the least. Peg may be a specific type of heroine peculiar to a single geographical location but with her urbane Cat and her trouble with high-spirited chicks this is one of those memorable heroines and one-on-one readalouds that add a little bit of math to a little bit of story alongside a whole lot of fine and beautiful art to bring us one fine fine book.
It's a bright and beautiful day when young Peg and her cat Cat go to the farm to have a perfect picnic with a pig. Peg is one of those girls who like everything to be just so, and when she discovers that she accidentally cut an extra slice of pie she feels it's a dire problem. Cat solves the imbalance by removing a very small chick from a nearby coop and surely that would be the end of that . . . if he'd managed to remember to close the coop door. Suddenly one hundred chickens are free and roaming the farm. It's up to Peg, Cat, and maybe that pig they picked up, to figure out a way to cajole these freedom loving fowl into returning from whence they came. When that mission is finally accomplished that leaves one final matter: Time for pie!
I've read the occasional professional review that snarked about the svelte story found here, but to be honest I was rather charmed by it. It's not the most dire straits that Peg and Cat must escape but in the simplest sense it's a story with a mistake, a solution, and a conclusion that feels satisfying. The language itself repeats in good ways and sounds pleasant on the tongue ("The pie was fresh and juicy and gooey") while the plot appeals to the pint-sized obsessive compulsives out there that insist that everything be exactly right.
The art is particularly charming, though I found I couldn't figure out the medium. If I was going to harbor a guess I'd say that it was digital art doing a stand-up and cheer imitation of mixed media. I might have figured it to be done by hand, were it not for the fact that on more than one occasion a chicken will repeat in a large crowd scene. No matter, since it's the charm of the characters that ultimately pull this puppy through. Peg, noseless though she may be, is a likeable soul. Cat, a feline I initially considered lacking in smiles, turns out to have quite a bit of nuance to his rotund eggplant-like little body. The pig is always referred to as "a pig", as if he were just some barnyard stray the duo stumbled over on their travels. He seems so content wherever he is, legs neatly crossed beneath him, that you suspect he'd follow Peg and Cat to the ends of the earth if they asked. As for the chickens themselves, they're beautifully expressionless and yet you spend a lot of your time just trying to keep up with their antics.
Speaking of endpapers, I've seen inside jokes in my day. I've seen clever details and little pokes of fun. What I have never seen are endpapers that are SO o'erfilled with details and ideas that you could spend the better part of twenty minutes parsing them. It is important to know that the front endpapers are incredibly different from the back endpapers. I mention this in part because I know that libraries have a tendency to glue their bookflaps to their books' front and back covers and the result is going to cover up quite a bit of content. At the front of the book you can find six scenes drawn from Peg and Cat's adventures. Sometimes they might be rowing George Washington over the Delaware while other times they're jamming with a band of bears. Quick flip to the back of the book and you've the strangest collection of one hundred chickens you ever did see. An explanation is provided in the special thanks section. It says, "And, for posing so patiently for the pictures, the one hundred chickens," and then names each and every last one of them. It took a while for me to realize that the names correspond with the pictures on the opposite page. I had already looked at the pictures of the chicks before and noticed odd details about them (like the fact that one of them resembled President Obama on his HOPE poster) but didn't realize that each one had a name ("Barawk Obama"). Look closely enough and you'll find references to Lady Gaga, Mahatma Gandhi, Rumpelstiltskin, St. John, George Bernard Shaw, and many others. My personal favorite was the preppy turtleneck donning Cluck C. Cluck III. Even without reading his name I knew he was a 1% chicken, if you know what I mean.
As the bookflaps explain, Peg and Cat are well on their way to becoming a television series on PBS that teaches preschoolers math someday. And while that might account for some of the adventures on the endpapers, the story stands perfectly well on its own. I don't need to see Peg on my TiVo to know she's a special kind of kid. Whether or not the show occurs, I do hope that we'll see more of Peg and her erstwhile purple companion on good old-fashioned paper and board in the future. I suspect folks will end up picking up the book more for the art and story than the math, and that's okay. Fun pretty much sums it up.
For ages 3-7.
It's a bright and beautiful day when young Peg and her cat Cat go to the farm to have a perfect picnic with a pig. Peg is one of those girls who like everything to be just so, and when she discovers that she accidentally cut an extra slice of pie she feels it's a dire problem. Cat solves the imbalance by removing a very small chick from a nearby coop and surely that would be the end of that . . . if he'd managed to remember to close the coop door. Suddenly one hundred chickens are free and roaming the farm. It's up to Peg, Cat, and maybe that pig they picked up, to figure out a way to cajole these freedom loving fowl into returning from whence they came. When that mission is finally accomplished that leaves one final matter: Time for pie!
I've read the occasional professional review that snarked about the svelte story found here, but to be honest I was rather charmed by it. It's not the most dire straits that Peg and Cat must escape but in the simplest sense it's a story with a mistake, a solution, and a conclusion that feels satisfying. The language itself repeats in good ways and sounds pleasant on the tongue ("The pie was fresh and juicy and gooey") while the plot appeals to the pint-sized obsessive compulsives out there that insist that everything be exactly right.
The art is particularly charming, though I found I couldn't figure out the medium. If I was going to harbor a guess I'd say that it was digital art doing a stand-up and cheer imitation of mixed media. I might have figured it to be done by hand, were it not for the fact that on more than one occasion a chicken will repeat in a large crowd scene. No matter, since it's the charm of the characters that ultimately pull this puppy through. Peg, noseless though she may be, is a likeable soul. Cat, a feline I initially considered lacking in smiles, turns out to have quite a bit of nuance to his rotund eggplant-like little body. The pig is always referred to as "a pig", as if he were just some barnyard stray the duo stumbled over on their travels. He seems so content wherever he is, legs neatly crossed beneath him, that you suspect he'd follow Peg and Cat to the ends of the earth if they asked. As for the chickens themselves, they're beautifully expressionless and yet you spend a lot of your time just trying to keep up with their antics.
Speaking of endpapers, I've seen inside jokes in my day. I've seen clever details and little pokes of fun. What I have never seen are endpapers that are SO o'erfilled with details and ideas that you could spend the better part of twenty minutes parsing them. It is important to know that the front endpapers are incredibly different from the back endpapers. I mention this in part because I know that libraries have a tendency to glue their bookflaps to their books' front and back covers and the result is going to cover up quite a bit of content. At the front of the book you can find six scenes drawn from Peg and Cat's adventures. Sometimes they might be rowing George Washington over the Delaware while other times they're jamming with a band of bears. Quick flip to the back of the book and you've the strangest collection of one hundred chickens you ever did see. An explanation is provided in the special thanks section. It says, "And, for posing so patiently for the pictures, the one hundred chickens," and then names each and every last one of them. It took a while for me to realize that the names correspond with the pictures on the opposite page. I had already looked at the pictures of the chicks before and noticed odd details about them (like the fact that one of them resembled President Obama on his HOPE poster) but didn't realize that each one had a name ("Barawk Obama"). Look closely enough and you'll find references to Lady Gaga, Mahatma Gandhi, Rumpelstiltskin, St. John, George Bernard Shaw, and many others. My personal favorite was the preppy turtleneck donning Cluck C. Cluck III. Even without reading his name I knew he was a 1% chicken, if you know what I mean.
As the bookflaps explain, Peg and Cat are well on their way to becoming a television series on PBS that teaches preschoolers math someday. And while that might account for some of the adventures on the endpapers, the story stands perfectly well on its own. I don't need to see Peg on my TiVo to know she's a special kind of kid. Whether or not the show occurs, I do hope that we'll see more of Peg and her erstwhile purple companion on good old-fashioned paper and board in the future. I suspect folks will end up picking up the book more for the art and story than the math, and that's okay. Fun pretty much sums it up.
For ages 3-7.
February 2, 2018
Everyone wants to have a nice piece of pie. Peg loved solving puzzles so when she had one very small piece of pie left over, the cat helped solve the problem. But they accidentally let all 100 chickens out of the coop. Now Peg has to solve the puzzle to collect them all. This book is nicely illustrated, but I’ve seen better books about problem solving. I do like how they use a simple math equation for the page number.
March 11, 2018
There is a lot going on in this book. The front end paper shows groups of things that associate with the yellow numbers, the back end paper introduces you to the 100 chickens who populate this story (the individual chicken names are quite funny).
What I thought was going to be a simple math book is really a problem solving situation. A simple picnic expands into a really big mistake when all the chicks escape and need to be returned to their coop. I like the way the cat does not panic, but gets Peg to calm down by counting backward from 5. Luckily this is an enlightened cat who does not regress to its base nature and start eating chicks. A cute book that you can share with a child by having them count the characters as they assemble for the picnic and determine before you read it that there is a problem with the number of pieces of pie. Realizing that 100 chicks is a REALLY BIG number and a big job to return them to the coop. Gathering ideas on how they might go about getting them back to their coop. Pausing before you read page 19 and see if they see any ideas on that page. Acknowledging that Peg gives credit to the cat for his idea and his help and also gives him a BIG hug.
What I thought was going to be a simple math book is really a problem solving situation. A simple picnic expands into a really big mistake when all the chicks escape and need to be returned to their coop. I like the way the cat does not panic, but gets Peg to calm down by counting backward from 5. Luckily this is an enlightened cat who does not regress to its base nature and start eating chicks. A cute book that you can share with a child by having them count the characters as they assemble for the picnic and determine before you read it that there is a problem with the number of pieces of pie. Realizing that 100 chicks is a REALLY BIG number and a big job to return them to the coop. Gathering ideas on how they might go about getting them back to their coop. Pausing before you read page 19 and see if they see any ideas on that page. Acknowledging that Peg gives credit to the cat for his idea and his help and also gives him a BIG hug.
January 16, 2020
Title: The Chicken Problem
Author: Jennifer Oxley
Illustrator: Billy Arnson
Date Published: 2012
Age Appropriateness: K-8
Summary: This book is based off a popular children's show called Peg+Cat. In this story, they are having a picnic at the farm, and all of the baby chicks get out of the coop! The friends must work together, problem solve, and solve some math to get them home safely!
Review: This book is one of the coolest books I have had the opportunity of reading. The book is simple enough to be read to a kinder class, but has the in depth potential to go as far as middle school. Something I have learned is that children are more capable of problem solving and math learning than we give them credit for. In the upper grades of elementary school, as well as middle school, students could work in groups to develop a "math talk" to discuss the mathematical qualities of this story.
Author: Jennifer Oxley
Illustrator: Billy Arnson
Date Published: 2012
Age Appropriateness: K-8
Summary: This book is based off a popular children's show called Peg+Cat. In this story, they are having a picnic at the farm, and all of the baby chicks get out of the coop! The friends must work together, problem solve, and solve some math to get them home safely!
Review: This book is one of the coolest books I have had the opportunity of reading. The book is simple enough to be read to a kinder class, but has the in depth potential to go as far as middle school. Something I have learned is that children are more capable of problem solving and math learning than we give them credit for. In the upper grades of elementary school, as well as middle school, students could work in groups to develop a "math talk" to discuss the mathematical qualities of this story.
February 27, 2020
Taken from the PBS show Peg + Cat, Peg and Cat and their friend Pig go to the farm to have a picnic. Each one has a piece of yummy pie to eat when Peg notices a problem... there's an extra piece of pie. It's very small. Cat has an idea. He goes to the chicken coop to pick out a tiny chick to join the picnic and eat the pie. That's when the problem begins. ALL the chickens escape and Peg can't get them to go home. She finally finds three wheelie things, one for each of them and they collect all the chickens and return them to the coop. Finally, Peg and Cat and Pig and Chick have one piece of pie each.
May 3, 2023
Keywords: Math, picture book, counting
The Chicken Problem is part of the Peg + Cat series. Peg and Cat are at the farm to have a picnic with a pig. Peg tries to share her pie with all the chickens. She wants everyone to have a pie, and a pie to have someone.
I could use this book in a kindergarten class to introduce numbers in a different way. The story counts up to 10, then backwards from 10. K.2(I) compose and decompose numbers up to 10 with objects and pictures.
The Chicken Problem is part of the Peg + Cat series. Peg and Cat are at the farm to have a picnic with a pig. Peg tries to share her pie with all the chickens. She wants everyone to have a pie, and a pie to have someone.
I could use this book in a kindergarten class to introduce numbers in a different way. The story counts up to 10, then backwards from 10. K.2(I) compose and decompose numbers up to 10 with objects and pictures.
April 19, 2023
"The Chicken Problem" by Jennifer Oxley and Billy Aronson follows Peg and Cat on their adventure to have a picnic. The chickens run out from the chicken coop and Peg must get them all in by collecting ten of them in wagons. This book supports mathematics. Students can learn the concept of place value in a funny and engaging way.
October 9, 2017
Only a little bit of a math book.
The page numbers are in the format lastpage + 1 = thispage.
The background of all the illustrations is a grid.
They round up 10 escaped chickens and realize that if 100 escaped there are still a lot left.
The page numbers are in the format lastpage + 1 = thispage.
The background of all the illustrations is a grid.
They round up 10 escaped chickens and realize that if 100 escaped there are still a lot left.
August 18, 2018
This is a top book and a favorite series by many young readers. This book introduces math problems in a fun and exciting way, that will get students thinking and doing math without realizing it through fun literature.
September 27, 2017
Fun story, fun illustrations, fun way to incorporate a little bit of the maths. With chickens! And pie! But a bit wordy for group readings.
October 12, 2018
Very cute stealth math book for preschoolers.
October 21, 2018
A long book the but one which we thoroughly enjoyed.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 27, 2019
Very funny counting book!
January 21, 2025
This was a fun one to read out loud. My niece (4) loved it and asked for multiple reads. She loves looking at all the silly chicks.
June 13, 2022
After giving it another chance, Akiva is now obsessed with this one. It’s super cute. So many chickens.
April 5, 2024
Hilarity ensues when cat forgets to close the chicken coop! We loved looking at all of the adorable things the chickens did once they got a taste of freedom.
September 29, 2013
Peg wants to have a picnic with her cat and a pig. I don't know why the pig. But he's kind of cute. Peg also loves to solve problems, which is a good thing, since her cat, Cat, accidentally lets 100 tiny chicks out of their coop. Whoops.
Peg starts problem-solving and picks up 10 chicks. Woo-Hoo! But there are 90 other chickies still dancing around the barnyard. It's craziness. Luckily, there are three handy-dandy wheelbarrows nearby, just the right size for Peg, Cat, and the pig to fill with chicks and push to the coop.
Math is everywhere in this book. It's in the clouds, on the end papers, in the equations throughout, and even on the page numbering. (Which, I am sad to say, took me forever to figure out. I kept looking at the corners of the pages and saying to myself, "3+1? There is nothing on this page that correlates with 3+1! When it finally dawned on me that these were page numbers, I felt extremely stupid.) Math isn't so much in the actual text as in the world around Peg. Every corner of the barnyard is filled with math-related images.
The illustrations, Peg's little ditties she sings as she gathers chicks, and the descriptions of all the little chicks running around like, well, like chickens with their heads fully on are what makes this story all fun. But the best part is on the back endpapers, in the authors' thank you note. After thanking the requisite editors, etc., they thank "the one hundred chickens" for posing for the pictures. Chickens who have names like Imogen Cheep, Cockadoodledoo Horowitz, Wyatt Chirp, Barawk Obama, Michele Squawkmann, Charles Chickens, The Artist Formerly Known as Chicken, and 93 other terrific chicken names. Final end paper shows 58 of those spunky chickies, including Barawk Obama on a "Hope" poster. Well done.
Peg starts problem-solving and picks up 10 chicks. Woo-Hoo! But there are 90 other chickies still dancing around the barnyard. It's craziness. Luckily, there are three handy-dandy wheelbarrows nearby, just the right size for Peg, Cat, and the pig to fill with chicks and push to the coop.
Math is everywhere in this book. It's in the clouds, on the end papers, in the equations throughout, and even on the page numbering. (Which, I am sad to say, took me forever to figure out. I kept looking at the corners of the pages and saying to myself, "3+1? There is nothing on this page that correlates with 3+1! When it finally dawned on me that these were page numbers, I felt extremely stupid.) Math isn't so much in the actual text as in the world around Peg. Every corner of the barnyard is filled with math-related images.
The illustrations, Peg's little ditties she sings as she gathers chicks, and the descriptions of all the little chicks running around like, well, like chickens with their heads fully on are what makes this story all fun. But the best part is on the back endpapers, in the authors' thank you note. After thanking the requisite editors, etc., they thank "the one hundred chickens" for posing for the pictures. Chickens who have names like Imogen Cheep, Cockadoodledoo Horowitz, Wyatt Chirp, Barawk Obama, Michele Squawkmann, Charles Chickens, The Artist Formerly Known as Chicken, and 93 other terrific chicken names. Final end paper shows 58 of those spunky chickies, including Barawk Obama on a "Hope" poster. Well done.
July 4, 2013
The Chicken Problem by Jennifer Oxley and Billy Aronson – another lovely math book with everyday life problems occurring through a really cute book. I love the graph paper background, addition problems tucked at the bottom of the page and exclamation marks used in an entertaining, cute way… My Favorites were: “Chickens standing on each other’s heads! Chickens doing the chicken dance! Chickens bending over and wiggling their botttoms in the air!” Really special picture book with an adorable cat who also is special in the book. Even the voice of the main character, Peg, is entertaining with the words she repeats- I look forward to reading it aloud to classes, I can see them fall into giggling fits over the REALLY BIG CHICKEN problems she has.
December 20, 2012
Age: Preschool-1st grade
When someone leaves the chicken coop open and the chicks run-a-muck, it's up to Peg and Cat to use their math skills to help solve their poultry predicament. I love that the story is set atop graph paper, and that algebraic equations scatter the sky, and there's a cute song about counting chicks, and I love the tone of the story, but the final solution for wrangling up the chicks is accidental, requiring no math. Pretty anticlimactic for the general purpose of the story.
A side note, math is used as supplemental fun. It is not the strict purpose or plot of the story.
When someone leaves the chicken coop open and the chicks run-a-muck, it's up to Peg and Cat to use their math skills to help solve their poultry predicament. I love that the story is set atop graph paper, and that algebraic equations scatter the sky, and there's a cute song about counting chicks, and I love the tone of the story, but the final solution for wrangling up the chicks is accidental, requiring no math. Pretty anticlimactic for the general purpose of the story.
A side note, math is used as supplemental fun. It is not the strict purpose or plot of the story.
June 5, 2013
Trying to figure where this might fit. It seems to start out as a number book, but quickly morphs into more of a problem solving story, without manipulating actual numbers. I am still trying to figure out the significance of the equation at the bottom of every page, other than to show everyone what a one looks like, and to add by ones. I love the illustrations, and once the 100 chickens appeared in the story I was caught. The vocabulary is great -all of the chicken activity. Cat saves the day with his solution to the problem. And while you'd have to figure how to fit this into your storytime, the list of thank yous on the back page is not to be ignored!
July 12, 2013
If the point of this book is to teach young children some basic math concepts, I don't think it does a good job (and the story in and of itself isn't great enough to carry the book otherwise). If the author had incorporated more counting, a little subtraction, and had a page where all 100 of the chickens were numbered so kids could count them, this book would have been so much better. The page numbering on the bottom was clever (1+1=2 for the second page, 1+2=3 for the third page, and so forth) as was the incorporation of graph paper in the illustrations, but this book definitely fell flat for me and my four-year-old: a good idea--just not enough substance.
April 29, 2015
The book "The Chicken Problem" by Jennifer Oxley & Billy Aronson is a Children's picture book. For Age groups 3-7.
This book is about how they only needed one little chicken instead they ended up with 100 chickens out of chicken coop. They had to find away to get them all back, but the one. I gave this book 2 stars because it started with them counting chickens, but the numbers didn't match up. I think it would end up confusing the children. It had good pictures was a tad bit funny. But still didn't care much for the book. Because of the chickens on cover it may appeal to the children. I would only use this book in pre-k because majority doesn't know how to count that high.
This book is about how they only needed one little chicken instead they ended up with 100 chickens out of chicken coop. They had to find away to get them all back, but the one. I gave this book 2 stars because it started with them counting chickens, but the numbers didn't match up. I think it would end up confusing the children. It had good pictures was a tad bit funny. But still didn't care much for the book. Because of the chickens on cover it may appeal to the children. I would only use this book in pre-k because majority doesn't know how to count that high.
January 1, 2013
I'll admit I have a weakness for a good chicken story. I have many of them in my library because the story has chicken AND because the story is very good. Sadly this book has a hundred chickens, plenty in fact! It is not a good or entertaining story though. The illustrations are charming, but overall I was disappointed. I thought the girl and her cat would be terrific with so many chickens, but the story itself is weak and not entertaining. I will not be purchasing this one for my library.
January 5, 2013
A girl and her friends are having a picnic and each of them gets the perfect piece of pie. Except they have one tiny piece left and they decide to share it with a tiny chick. When Cat invites the chick out, 100 other chickens escape. Working together to find a creative solution, the girl and her friends get the 100 chickens back into the coop and enjoy their picnic.
Recommended for lower elementary audiences. My only complaint is that it seems a bit unfair that only the tiny chick gets pie after all the chicken problem.
Recommended for lower elementary audiences. My only complaint is that it seems a bit unfair that only the tiny chick gets pie after all the chicken problem.
April 26, 2013
This is a very fun book and I think children would really enjoy it. Although it is not completely in the graphic novel format, it does resemble them. Peg and Cat are getting ready to have a picnic on the farm when they run into a big problem. This is a book that shares math, basic concepts and proving that math can be fun. The story shares that every problem has a perfect solution.
I think that this would be a fun way to introduce a math unit to the class. Grades 1-3 would likely enjoy this the most.
I think that this would be a fun way to introduce a math unit to the class. Grades 1-3 would likely enjoy this the most.
October 21, 2013
This was an enjoyable story about Peg and her cat. Peg and her cat love to solve problems, and boy do they have a big one to solve when 100 chickens are on the loose. The graph paper background illustrations were eye-catching and the page numbers presented the readers with equations to solve, which was very clever. However, there was very little "real" math or number manipulation to the story. While this takes away from the usefulness of this book, conceptually speaking, it does not take away from the storyline, or it's ability to appeal to young students.
October 27, 2012
Peg and her cat are about to enjoy a pie picnic when 100 baby chicks get loose! They try a few different methods to gather the chicks and with the help of some wheelbarrows and baby carriages accomplish their task and get back to their pie.
The math concepts (addition, subtraction, grouping) this book attempted to cover fell short for me. The artwork was rendered atop graph paper and with 100 chicks loose across a two page spread the text and pictures became overwhelming.
The math concepts (addition, subtraction, grouping) this book attempted to cover fell short for me. The artwork was rendered atop graph paper and with 100 chicks loose across a two page spread the text and pictures became overwhelming.
August 2, 2015
Peg and Cat love to solve problems (although they seem to create some of for themselves). This wacky story of 100 escaped chicks is appealing and loaded with lively language. Math is embedded throughout (graph paper background, one to one correspondence, page numbers as equations, etc. My favorite parts are the end papers and the credits, which include naming each of the 100 chicks who posed for the illustrator- read 'em!
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