The Chicken of the Family

The Chicken of the Family
by Mary Amato illustrated by Delphine Durand (2008)

Imagine you're a kid with two older, annoying sisters who tease you all the time. And then one day they tell you you are a chicken. And you believe them. That's what this book is about.

Henrietta, the youngest sister, is shocked when Kim and Clare, her two sisters, tell her she is a chicken. She isn't sure she believes them. But they put an egg in her bed, and feathers by her bedside, and say all these things that aren't quite true about her, and she ends up believing them. So she goes to the farm next door, where there is a hen house garden, and she plays tag and follow-the-leader with the chickens. Her sisters say she has to come home, that she's not a chicken, and that they are going to get into trouble. But Henrietta likes being a chicken, playing with her new friends in peace....