# Hungry Hen

**Author:** Richard Waring
**Grade range:** Grades K–2
**Age range:** 5–7
**First published:** 2001
**Page count:** 32
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780060741969`
**ISBN-10:** `0060741961`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/hungry-hen
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A greedy fox watches a hungry hen growing bigger every day, knowing that the longer he waits to eat her, the bigger she will be.

## Themes

- chickens
- foxes
- pictorial works
- chickens, fiction

## Where this book is assigned

### Kentucky Bluegrass Award

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Association of School Librarians — Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner's Circle, 2004 winner (K-2)](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)
- **recommended** · 1st grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Association of School Librarians — Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner's Circle, 2004 winner (K-2)](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade · Kentucky — [source: Kentucky Association of School Librarians — Kentucky Bluegrass Award Winner's Circle, 2004 winner (K-2)](https://www.kasl.us/kba/kba-winners-circle)

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