Interrupting Chicken: Cookies for Breakfast

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Interrupting Chicken: Cookies for Breakfast

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David Ezra Stein

Publisher

Candlewick

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Release Date

November 09, 2021

ISBN

978-1536207781

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In her latest star turn, the little red chicken from the Caldecott Honor Book Interrupting Chicken is hungry—and sillier than ever. It’s bright and early on a Saturday morning, and the little red chicken wants cookies for breakfast. What better way to persuade Papa than by jarring him awake and gleefully interjecting cookies—and herself!—into every nursery rhyme they read together? Though the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe heartily endorses the little red chicken’s plan, Papa has his own idea for a sweet breakfast for his determined daughter. Featuring the same riotous charm and bright, bold art as Interrupting Chicken and Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise, David Ezra Stein’s third installment will have any fan with a sweet tooth and a love of meta rhyme clamoring to find out: will the early bird get the cookie?

In her latest star turn, the little red chicken from the Caldecott Honor Book Interrupting Chicken is hungry—and sillier than ever.

It’s bright and early on a Saturday morning, and the little red chicken wants cookies for breakfast. What better way to persuade Papa than by jarring him awake and gleefully interjecting cookies—and herself!—into every nursery rhyme they read together? Though the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe heartily endorses the little red chicken’s plan, Papa has his own idea for a sweet breakfast for his determined daughter. Featuring the same riotous charm and bright, bold art as Interrupting Chicken and Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise, David Ezra Stein’s third installment will have any fan with a sweet tooth and a love of meta rhyme clamoring to find out: will the early bird get the cookie?

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sweet picture book

December 04, 2021 (Updated: June 04, 2026)

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INTERRUPTING CHICKEN: COOKIES FOR BREAKFAST is a sweet picture book read that will resonate with both children and their caregivers. Chicken is ready for the day to start and wakes up her Papa. While she is trying to convince him that they should have cookies for breakfast (and she brought them along), he is just waking up and willing to read from her nursery rhyme book. However, Chicken is ready to bring them all back to cookies with her usual interrupting style. The book concludes with them getting up to have cakes for breakfast instead (pancakes!).

What I loved: This is another sweet story between Chicken and her father with conversations that will resonate for both children and caregivers. Papa is just trying to sleep but willing to still read a book to Chicken as he wakes up. Chicken is determined to have cookies for breakfast and willing to bring all the stories back to cookies in the usual delightful style. Children will love seeing the nursery rhymes and how they are transformed as well as the original one that Chicken has created. Caregivers will definitely empathize with Papa as they recognize both the determined morning wake-ups and the silly meal requests.

The font used is really easy to read and never too dense on any page. The full cover detailed illustrations, along with the font changes for Chicken's interludes and storybook page styles for the books being read, make this a really unique and fun book to read. In the context of the other books in the series, this is a clever and sweet new installment that brings all the things readers loved in the previous books with a new story.

Final verdict: A charming and sweet picture book, INTERRUPTING CHICKEN: COOKIES FOR BREAKFAST is a delightful new story about Chicken and her Papa in the morning.