This silly take on the Grimms' classic The Brementown Musicians stars a comedi-hen who's sick of working for chicken feed, a dog who does stand-up instead of chasing foxes, a cat-erwauler with no knack for claw enforcement, and a punning cow suffering from Milk of Amnesia. How do these creatures like their eggs? Funny side up! Full-color illustrations.
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• A high-energy paean to cornball humor.
• Non-stop puns make this a good classroom addition to units on homophones, homonyms, and figures of speech.
• Finely textured, naturalistic drawings make the assorted animals’ exaggerated expressions that much more rib-tickling.
When a chicken who prefers cracking jokes to laying eggs sets out to follow her dream of becoming a stand-up “comedi-hen,” she and three other pun-pulling new friends run afoul of robbers before finding their funny-ever-after fortune. O’Malley’s slapstick send-up of “The Brementown Musicians” percolates with eye-rolling one-liners and endearingly antic cartoons.
Following her dream to be a "comedi-hen," Hen meets Dog, Cat, and Cow along the way. In this cornpone parody of "The Bremen Town Musicians," the quartet scares thieves away from an old farmhouse and opens a comedy club. Pun follows pun, and jokes appear within the story, in conversational balloons, and on the endpapers. Visual humor complements the verbal slapstick.