As someone who worked in publishing, I loved seeing the chickens using CMYK plates (cyan, magenta, yellow and black). The book is a wonderful telling of the writing and publishing process. After finishing her story, she sends it to a publisher, gets rejected, publishes it herself, get a bad review and then discovers that all of the children at the library love it. Henrietta the hen is assisted by her many aunts who at time need to have terms explained, like that a plot isn’t a piece of land, but what happens in a story. She checks some books out of the library about writing and the follows the rules that they set forth. This was a very cute book about a hen who loves reading and decides to try her hand at writing a book. What was even more fabulous than reading the books with J was that afterwards, she wanted to write a story of her own! Our library is somewhat limited in availability, so while I was in California I used the public library there to get a number of these books. So when I found one book that was about the writing process, it got my mind churning about the others out there. It is a vital part of the education process that I wish we could nurture more. I remember being allowed to just draw pictures and then write the stories or dictate them to a teacher when I was younger. These days, schools focus so much on reading that it seems like they are not paying as much attention to the importance of creative writing.
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