Josh is a worrier – and for a good reason. A brother or sister is about to be born, but his mother is in hospital with something called ‘complications’. As if that’s not bad enough, Grandma has arrived to run the household while Josh’s dad is busy with their chicken farm. And then there’s Semolina, Josh’s cantankerous and extraordinary pet hen. In return for prawn crackers and the odd beer she’ll tell Josh all the animal gossip. But no one else believes Semolina can talk, and Josh’s warning about a fox on the loose in the chicken house in laughed at – until it is too late.
Read Chicken feathers and tell me what you think!