![]() This mild continuation stays so true to Rosie’s Walk that it could’ve easily been published a few years after that book, instead of almost 50. ![]() The story relies heavily on the pictures to show the action and some pages have no text. mathpicturebookforkidslearningvideoforkidsplaymathRosie’s Walk Written and illustrated by Pat Hutchins Math skills developed by. Rosie’s walk is a simple story that appeals to young children but is also great for older children who are starting to read. Hutchins reprises her hand-drawn style and autumnal palette, with the action unspooling across the lower margin of the spreads against a backdrop of orchards and haystacks. Unbeknown to her she is being followed by a fox who gets into various kinds of trouble before being chased away by a swarm of bees. At last mother and child get together, observed by the original book’s fox and its own little one. As Rosie bumbles along (“Where is her little baby chick?”), she drops the henhouse gate on a pouncing cat and knocks an apple into the jaws of a sharp-toothed fish, inadvertently saving her oblivious chick from peril. Readers will notice right away that the chick is disguised, its head covered by half an eggshell with only its orange legs and yellow midsection visible. ![]() This sequel revisits Rosie, still just as dotty, who is making her way across a barnyard in search of her just-hatched chick. ![]() ![]() In 1968’s Rosie’s Walk, celebrated for its combination of deadpan sentences and suspenseful imagery, Hutchins pictured a clueless chicken tailed by a luckless fox. ![]()
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