Hanna Johansen (1939–2023)

This book brings a very good message through its use of colorful illustrations and textual connections. Henrietta is a chicken that grows up on a dirty, tiny farm with three thousand three hundred and thirty-three chickens. She tells herself that when she becomes old enough to lay eggs, hers will be golden. Through dreaming of being able to swim and sing outside of the chicken coop, she begins to peck a hole through the coop. When the other chickens discover her relationship to the outside, they join in and soon escape to the outside. After many attempts to contain the chickens, the owners make it possible for the chickens to go in and out of their coop. In the end, Henrietta ends up laying a regular brown egg. She never loses hope in this story and makes it seem possible for anybody to dream big.… (meer)