While it does begin in a kind of depressing tone, with Hen (as she's called at the beginning of the story) living in a small cage on a factory farm, things soon start looking up for this plucky chicken.
Thank you to NetGalley and Stone Pier Press for providing me with a DRC of this book. So my final verdict is a middle of the road rating of 3 stars. In the end, I didn't come away with any clear message - was this about making friends? Maybe about the cruelty of poultry farms? Possibly how humans and chickens are similar? I really don't know. Unfortunately, because of those pages with so much text, the font size is necessarily on the small side, which made this more difficult to read. Some pages are overloaded with text, while others have just a few words. Some parts are super silly, while others are actually pretty dark. I'm sure that this will be a hit with some kids, especially those who love to absorb new facts, but I found the book lacks a bit of focus. At the end of the book are some interesting facts about chickens (this is probably my favourite part of the book). Gwen slowly learns about the outside world and eventually befriends a young boy who takes her home with him. In the story, we follow Gwen, a hen who is displaced after a tornado rips through her home in a massive chicken farm. The cover and blurb looked promising, but the execution didn't quite work for me. Gwen the Rescue Hen is the second book in our Farm Animal Rescue Books for children. The book includes a bonus section called More About Chickens, where curious readers can learn that chickens have extraordinary eyesight, a complex language of 24 sounds, and are descended from dinosaurs, among other fun facts about chickens. Together they discover how extraordinary an ordinary chicken really is. Using her wits and chicken superpowers, Gwen dodges danger at every turn until she finds safety and friendship with a boy named Mateo. A fateful tornado turns her world upside-down and sideways, landing her in a strange new place that's nothing like the hen house. Gwen has spent her whole life in a big egg-laying hen house, so she knows very little about what chickens can do (besides lay eggs, of course). Winner of a Northern Lights Book Award for “children’s literature of exceptional merit,” Gwen the Rescue Hen is the heart-warming story about a sharp-witted chicken whose adventures inspire compassion for farm animals.
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