About the Book New Chicks at The Peaceable

Book: New Chicks at The Peaceable

Author: Caryl “Grami” McAdoo

Genre: Children’s Animals Picture Book

Release Date: November 23, 2023

Chickens from newborns to old hens have a “pecking order” but bullying is never right! What to do if you’re bullied by those around you!

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My Thoughts on New Chicks at The Peaceable

Caryl McAdoo is one of my favorite historical fiction authors so it stands to reason when she came out with a kids line that I would be first in line to read them.  I believe this is the second of her Grami McAdoo line.  The first was adorable and so is this one. 

On our farm, we’re always excited to have new chicks!  So of course we’d be excited to read about another farm and their brand new baby chicks.  Whether they’re born on the farm or brought in after hatching they’re still adorable and fun!

This book was well written.  The photos are sweet.  The illustrations are well done.  I feel that the book can actually be read as two books.  You’ve got more non-fiction and informative sections for older kids and then the storybook lines for the younger crew.  So you can almost pick and choose what you want to read depending on the audience.  Or you can do what my two-year-old does and simply dictate your own story based on the pictures.  

I have voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book which I received from Celebrate Lit. All views expressed are only my honest opinion. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way. All opinions expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC regulations.

About the Author of New Chicks at The Peaceable

Award-winning, Christian author Caryl McAdoo prays her story brings God glory. Of her best-selling novels, readers love her historical Christian romance family sagas most, but also enjoy their contemporary cousins, Caryl’s Biblical fiction, her new historical mystery series, and tales for young adults and mid-grade booklovers as well as the new picture books for the still younger set. The majority of reviewers award her stories five-stars and praise Caryl’s writing style and the depth of her characters, feeling as though they get to know them well.

The prolific writer loves singing the new songs God gives her almost as much as penning new novels—hear a few at YouTube! She’s been married to Ron for fifty-five years, and they share four children and twenty-seven grandsugars. The McAdoos live at The Peaceable in the woods south of Clarksville, the seat of Red River County in far Northeast Texas, waiting expectantly for God to open the next door.

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As the chicken population grows at The Peaceable Farm & Bookery, troubles come–all based on the true story! One of our beautiful ‘Golden Laced Wyandotte’ hens got broody and wanted to sit on a nest and hatch a clutch of chicks!

The wee peepers, designated the “Songsters” and named Reba, Celine, Loretta, and Miley (the last by a reader’s daughter), experience the famous and proverbial “pecking order” chickens are so famous for. In human terms that can be called bullying though, and so Goldie, their mother teaches the girls how to respond to those bully chickens!

Grami loves her “backyard birds”, and so does O’Pa! She expects the name of the twenty acres she and O’Pa live on in Red River County—The Peaceable—to be the spur for all its inhabitants to cohabitate peacefully with one another—and that includes the chickens!

She and O’Pa, her husband of fifty-five years have bought an incubator to hatch purebred chicks and then raise fine, healthy birds to their laying age—usually four to five months—before finding them forever homes. We love our flock, and the babies grow so fast.

Watching them is so much fun and relaxing, too!

Grami knows each hen and rooster by name, and they all are so affectionate! They come running whenever I head out the door (mostly because they want to see if I brought any food! 😊) I love thinking about what they are saying to each other with all their clucking and purring and cackling!

This is why the books are partially written from the hens’ point of view as our first animal series, The River Bottom Ranch Stories features horses, goats, and dogs among other wild animal characters. And all those farm animals were real ones that we owned and loved, too—like the chickens!

This series ‘Grami’s Stories for Children’ also has a narrator speaking throughout—that’s me, Grami McAdoo! I talk to the children through a few pages full of dialogue to teach them about poultry and things of God. In NEW CHICKS at the Peaceable, I talk about bullies and how Jesus teaches us to respond, and how they can be scary, but God is always with us and sends His angels to protect us!

The illustrations are photographs of our real chickens and The Peaceable Farm & Bookery. In the back of the book, there are a few pages of “Chicken Terminology” and fun “Chicken Facts” to teach the little ones more about the wonderful world of chickens!

I pray the precious little ones so dear to God’s heart will love the story and be blessed by it! 😊

Blog Stops for New Chicks at The Peaceable

Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, January 9

Lots of Helpers, January 10

Library Lady’s Kid Lit, January 11

Artistic Nobody, January 12 (Author Interview)

Splashes of Joy, January 12

Texas Book-aholic, January 13

Guild Master, January 14 (Author Interview)

Locks, Hooks and Books, January 15

Happily Managing a Household of Boys, January 16

Abba’s Prayer Warrior Princess, January 17

Cover Lover Book Review, January 18

Girls in White Dresses, January 19

A Reader’s Brain, January 20 (Author Interview)

Lights in a Dark World, January 20

For Him and My Family, January 21

Fiction Book Lover, January 22 (Author Interview)

Giveaway for New Chicks at The Peaceable

To celebrate her tour, Caryl is giving away the prize of a $25 Amazon gift card and a copy of the book!!

Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway!

Click the link below to enter.

https://promosimple.com/ps/29587/new-chicks-at-the-peaceable-celebration-tour-giveaway