Follow a classroom of kindergartners as they participate in a popular activity: hatching chicks. Readers learn about the life cycle of a chicken, incubating eggs, watching them hatch, and raising the chicks until they are old enough to return to the chicken coop.Caroline Arnold's simple text and close-up photographs are instructive and adorable.Winner of the Cybils Award for Elementary NonfictionArnold captures the joy and mystery of this familiar unit of study - Kirkus ReviewsReaders will come away with a good understanding of chickens' origins - BooklistAn excellent addition to studies of animals, life cycles, or agriculture, as well as an excellent mentor text for the genre of photo essay and stories of classroom life. - SLJ's Classroom Bookshelf Blog