The title is accurate as most Sundays are a Chicken Sunday. Gramma is in full color in her softly vibrant pink dress and framed by the loving children. The cover has a white background with the children’s clothes sketched in outline form and their faces and hair done in pastels. They love Gramma so much that the threesome decides to find a way to let her know how much they love her. Sometimes on Sundays she would go to the Baptist church with them and follow it with a fried chicken dinner. Stewart and Winston are brothers to a little red-haired Russian girl, and they happily share their gramma, Eula Mae Walker, with her. It’s a two-way love and the gist of this story.Ī loving gramma who opened her heart and home and encouraged the children to open theirs.Ī hatmaker who was open to truths and his own heart of gold. One who opens her heart and yet knows when discipline is necessary, when a lesson must be taught.

You can’t help but fall in love with a gramma who practices what she preaches. Books by Patricia Polacco (such as Thunder Cake,Chicken Sunday,Mrs.Katz and. In 1992, Chicken Sunday won the California Book Award Silver Medal for Juvenile. Choose a new text by Patricia Polacco and read it aloud to the students. Philomel Books, 16.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-3-0 Polacco-in the role of young narrator-introduces another cast of characters from her. Other books by this author which I have reviewed include The Keeping Quilt, Pink and SayĪ children’s story of tolerance and reaching out. BUY THIS BOOK Chicken Sunday Patricia Polacco. Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polaccoįiction, memoir, non-fiction, picture book in Paperback edition that was published by Puffin Books on Februand has 32 pages. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review.

Chicken sunday by patricia polacco