A New York Times Best Children's Book of 2020
Selected for 2021 Society of Illustrators Original Art Exhibition
Nominated for a 2021 Ezra Jack Keats Illustrator Award
A 2022 Book All Young Georgians Should Read
2020 Eureka! Nonfiction Children's Book Honor Award
Written by Amy Alznauer
Illustrated by Ping Zhu
As a young girl, writer Flannery O'Connor was captivated by the chickens in her yard. She'd watch their wings flap, their beaks peck, and their eyes glint. At age six, her life was forever changed when she and a chicken she had been training to walk backwards were featured in the Pathé News. She realized then that people were interested in the strange oddities of life.
