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The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
Sprout the hen refused her cage, raised a duck and never once stopped dreaming. 🐣 Parenting someone who is nothing like you, in 130 pages.
Who it's for
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly is a short fable about a hen who refuses a life of laying eggs in a cage, escapes, and raises a duckling as her own.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Sun-mi Hwang's Korean fable, first published in 2000 and translated into English by Chi-Young Kim in 2013 with illustrations by Nomoco, follows Sprout, a hen on a farm who longs to escape her cage. After she escapes, she finds an egg and raises the duckling that hatches as her own, with help from a mallard called Straggler.
Where to find it
In print (Penguin) and at libraries. Check for an audiobook edition.
Before you start
Heads up: Animal cruelty and a beloved animal's death.
Age: Ages 12+
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau, Walden, “Conclusion”
