Get Ready for Some Spooky Fun!

Poultrygeist is a punny new picture book that puts a fresh spin on an old joke!

Everyone knows the old joke: “Why did the chicken cross the road?” And of course, the answer is “to get to the other side.”

Well, in Poultrygeist, the new picture book written by Eric Geron and illustrated by #1 New York Times best-selling illustrator Pete Oswald, that old joke gets a meta new spin, and gives a whole new meaning to “the Other Side.” Cock-a-doodle-BOO!

A little spring chicken crosses the road but quickly gets flattened under a semitruck. The barnyard beasts who’ve gone before break the news: now that Chicken’s fried—dispatched to the Other Side—Chicken has a job, an unwanted job, as a noisy trouble-making ghost. This fowl may be weak in the beak, but Chicken knows that scaring people isn’t nice. There is such a thing as a friendly ghost, after all—isn’t there? Loaded with laughs and shivers, this Halloween-ready treat features ghoulishly funny art by the illustrator of the Bad Seed series. Let the haunting begin!

Reviews

“An ideal Halloween read-aloud and great for children with an appreciation for the macabre.” —School Library Journal (starred review)

“It’s hard to feel chicken when a book is this clucking hilarious.” —The Horn Book

“Supernaturally Spooktacular.”— Shelf Awareness

“Marvelous digital illustrations…reassuringly silly.” —Publishers Weekly

Published by Candlewick Press

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