Cover for the book Gwen the Rescue Hen which features a girl riding a bicycle with a chicken on the handle bars.

Gwen the Rescue Hen

Author: Leslie Crawford

Reading age:4 to 7 years old

Last Updated: 7 June 2023Published On: 14 December 2018

Using her wits, Gwen dodges danger until she finds friendship with a boy named Mateo. Together they learn how extraordinary chickens are.

Cover for the book Gwen the Rescue Hen which features a girl riding a bicycle with a chicken on the handle bars.

Gwen the Rescue Hen

Author: Leslie Crawford

Reading age:4 to 7 years old

Last Updated: 7 June 2023Published On: 14 December 2018

Using her wits, Gwen dodges danger until she finds friendship with a boy named Mateo. Together they learn how extraordinary chickens are.

Cover for the book Gwen the Rescue Hen which features a girl riding a bicycle with a chicken on the handle bars.

Gwen the Rescue Hen

Author: Leslie Crawford

Reading age: 4 to 7 years old

Last Updated: 7 June 2023Published On: 14 December 2018

Using her wits, Gwen dodges danger until she finds friendship with a boy named Mateo. Together they learn how extraordinary chickens are.

NOTES FROM THE PUBLISHER

Gwen the Rescue Hen Overview

Gwen has spent her whole life in a big egg-laying hen house, so she knows very little about what chickens can do (besides lay eggs, of course). A fateful tornado turns her world upside-down and sideways, landing her in a strange new place that’s nothing like the hen house.

Using her wits and chicken superpowers, Gwen dodges danger at every turn until she finds safety and friendship with a boy named Mateo. Together they discover how extraordinary an ordinary chicken is.

The book includes a bonus section called “More About Chickens,” where curious readers can learn that chickens have extraordinary eyesight, a complex language of 24 sounds, and are descended from dinosaurs, among other fun facts.

Gwen the Rescue Hen is the second children’s book in Stone Pier Press’s Farm Animal Rescue Series, perfect for ages 4 to 7.

About the Author

Leslie Crawford always thought she’d wind up living in the country raising vegetables and animals on a farm straight out of Charlotte’s Web. That didn’t happen, though she does have six chickens and five rescue pigeons in her San Francisco home. Crawford became a writer instead, producing stories for San Francisco Magazine, Salon, Metropolitan, and many other publications and websites before channeling her farming aspirations into a story about a hen who finds her way out of a cramped cage into a life of adventure with a young boy.

Editorial Reviews

“In telling these heartwarming tales of resilience, compassion, and love, Crawford avoids the more brutal realities of factory farming, showing simply that these farms are extremely unhappy places for such intelligent and emotional beings. She focuses instead on how truly wonderful these overlooked and poorly treated animals are―that they’re way more than just bacon and nuggets.” – Reynard Loki, Ecowatch

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