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The Chicken Run

Authored by Aye Aye Win Lemmers
6.0" x 9.0" (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Color on White paper
28 pages
ISBN-13: 9781497345980
ISBN-10: 1497345987
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The Chicken Run

In loving memory of our pets.

For Oli
&
all the beautiful toddlers in our lives.

Here is a story of a speckled nose

puppy and his naughty adventures .

One fine day we walk in the fields, through

fertile land where farmers make their

Chirp. Chirp, tweet the birds.

Moo. Baa! chorus the herds.

yields.

Next to Mum and Dad, along I walk.

Mouths moving, oh my, they can talk and
talk. We cross a field and pass a farm,
where there are juicy chickens around a
barn.

Lets
make this my hunting day.

Hey! Hey! My instincts say,

Off I slip, when they dont look, towards the

chicken barn like a crook.

Bwok. Bwok,

bwoks the chicken.

Run. Chase.
quicken.

Let me

Round and around the field they

run.

Oh! This is ever so much

fun.

I run fast and I catch one. Around it, I put

my salivary gum.

Then the chicken

stops its run.

For me, its no more fun.

So I go back and join mum and dad. Still,

walk, talk, talk and

walk, not even noticing that I was with a
they

flock.

Then comes a car from behind, with an

Together my folks reply, Our

angry farmer

a sweetheart. In these acts shed play no

part. I try to look as innocent as I can.

ready to give them a grind.

Your dog killed my hen, he declares. My

parents are caught totally unaware.

Specky is

Ill give you proof, says the angry man.

He returns soon with a dead chicken in

hand. You owe me something, is his demand.

think, and they

figure out the missing link. For a
Mum and dad start to

while I was out of their sight. That was the

time of the poor hens plight.

Mum and dad figure it out. Certainly there

is no doubt. The farmer is angry, thats no
disguise, to him they apologise.

I did wrong. My hunting

instinct is just too strong. Sorry for

Sorry. Sorry.

what I have done. I was just having a bit of

fun!

OK. OK.

The World of Specky

Other Books in the Series

A Home for Specky This is the start of my lifes adventuresin a pet shop looking for a new home and a
family.

Specky Meets TigerThis story is about how I met Tiger, my best friend in the whole wide world.

Up. Up. Up, I Climb This story is about the games

I played with Tiger and how he taught me to climb
the stairs .

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to my lovely daughter Petra for her colourings and her expert advice on what makes a good
read for toddlers, to my husband Jos for his continual support and encouragement with this family project, to my brother Zaw for his advise on epublishing, to Wendy Pradels for the text corrections,
to our friends - the Rhodes and Perry families for
their encouragement and help.

Thank you.

We hope the real life stories of our family pets

Specky and Tiger, and the drawings by my daughter
Zina will bring joy to many toddlers.

The inspiration for the book series comes

from the real life adventures of two family
petsSpeckles, the speckled nose cocker
spaniel and his best friend Tiger, the kind
and mighty cat.

Author: Aye Aye Win Lemmers

Aye Aye is a mother of three kids.
She is a human rights activist
and worked in a variety of human
rights organisations. She stopped
her professional work in 2010 to
spend more time with her fast
growing children. This is her first picture book series.

Illustrator: Zina Win Lemmers

Zina is twelve years old. She loves
to participate in school plays and
draw comic strips. Zinas the first
born kid in the family and knew
Specky and Tiger well. These
drawings are her way of bringing
these two wonderful characters to life.

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