Melissa has been featured on NPR and in People Magazine, Reader's Digest, Forbe's Magazine and Better Homes and Gardens Magazine. Booklist, It's hard to decide whether this book is more fascinating and valuable for its information on chickens or for its insight on the modern homestead movement.

Michael Gaspars, Whole Earth, "At times amusing, essentially very serious, this engaging offbeat look at the chicken-as an estimable creature in itself and as a symbol of man's desensitization through technology-[is] a pro-chicken, pro-man Western omelette worth reading and pondering.Originally published in 1975, it began as a collaborative college course on the chicken by a scientist, a historian, and their students. The result: a big book that pretty much covers the subject from Araucanas to Plymouths to Yokohamas; from the origins to cockfighting, folklore, modern chicken/egg 'factories,' and backyard chicken raising. If you have chickens or care about the subject or like human history in general this book is a must read. Jacket moderately worn, with large chips at head of spine, upper rear panel, and lower front cover; taped closed tear at upper front panel; spine label. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

At Made By Dyslexia, our mission is to teach the world to understand the brilliance and value of Dyslexic Thinking, and to empower it in every home, every workplace, and every school. As it traces the rise and fall of Gallus domesticus from the jungles of ancient India to the assembly-line hatcheries sprawled across modern America, this original, frequently astounding book passes along a trove of knowledge and lore about everything from the chicken's biology and behavior to its place in legend and mythology.This tasty book also chases the chicken through literature, film, painting (Magrittes hilariously sad chicken staring at an egg in an eggcup) and national symbolism (especially French).

I particularly enjoyed the chapter that describes the chickens social, emotional and cognitive intelligence, which elicits admiration and respect for this beautiful animal. In this hilarious, interactive adventure, our double-headed hero is chased through dozens of bizarre universes, from an ocean planet with a disturbing mermoose to a land covered with pizza sauce. She explains the tiny adjustments that occur within a viable egg – the way the embryo positions itself, before hatching, to hear its own heartbeat and the sounds of the world outside the egg. In this excellent book, Annie Potts makes an eloquent and impassioned plea for the chicken that should help us to redress the balance.Smith and Daniel are obviously enthusiastic (though not sentimental) about their subject, and they've provided some good, interesting, and useful reading on the chicken. Library marks: spine lettering, bookplate affixed to inside front cover; sticker removal scar to rear endpaper; pocket strip inside rear cover. With each BZOOP of Two-Headed Chicken's universe-hopping Astrocap, the only thing to expect is the unexpected. Melissa Caughey is the award-winning author of A Kid's Guide to Keeping Chickens and the blog Tilly's Nest.