This was a very funny book. It also taught a lesson about how apples fall when they are ready. ( )

Utterly brilliant, funny, quirky read aloud or read along book for younger kids (around age 2-7?).
It's about these high-spirited hens with slightly overactive imaginations who are hanging out under the apple tree when the ripe apples begin to fall.
They imagine a nasty fox throwing apples at them, and enlist the rooster to help, but he's no use at all.
Finally one brave hen decides to ascend the apple tree, and what she discovers up there frees her spirit and changes her point of view. She invites her friends to join her, and together they climb the tree and "let go".
It is metaphorical, imaginative, empowering, delightful and really fun to read aloud to kids. I love this book! ( )

A subtle, understated message delivered with slapstick humor. ( )