Agent: Joanna Volpe, New Leaf Literary & Media. It’s a somewhat facile story of difference, but Stanton’s artwork marks her as a talent worth watching.

In gentle pencil-and-watercolor sketches on an eggshell-white ground, Stanton scatters moments of quiet humor like chicken feed-Henny tries to “fit in” with a common chicken pose, folding her arms back like wings, and she bends those same elbows when she covers her ears to dampen a rooster’s crow. It started with the release in January of my picture book, HENNY (Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books), followed by so many exciting happenings. She even worried about things she didn’t quite understand-like tennis elbow, and hangnails, and whether she might need deodorant.” Henny eventually discovers a talent for farm chores and starts “to imagine all the other things she could do,” from hailing a cab to flying (a plane). Henny frets, albeit in non-chickenish ways: “She worried about being right-handed or left-handed. Elizabeth Rose Stanton began her picture book writing and illustrating adventure a few years ago, after a brief career as an architect, and long career as a. Henny doesnt look like any other chicken she knows. Instead of wings, she has arms Sometimes Henny likes being. her special gift in this whimsical and charming picture book debut from Elizabeth Rose Stanton. loved Henny anyway,” the other farm animals stare and even chortle. book debut from Elizabeth Rose Stanton.Henny doesnt look like any other chicken she knows. Instead of feathery wings, Henny has skinny pink human arms and hands.

Readers will do a double take at the confident chicken who waves hello from the cover of Stanton’s debut.

Henny by Elizabeth Rose Stanton