The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly, (Paperback)

from lydia1879

I finished this book in two sittings, and it was lovely. The writing style is sweet and simple and very layered, all at once. Sprout, a battery hen, destined to spend her life laying eggs, is a wonderful heroine. This book provides so much commentary on motherhood and freedom and identity and wha...

from Fliss88

Don't usually pick up a book like this, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Possibly a children's story, it reminded me of when I read Charlotte's Web. It is written very simply at a slow pace and is a book you will read in just a couple of days. A lovely story about a battery hen, who managed to escap...

from ParadisePorch

(Fiction, Literary, Translated, Korean) Called a Korean 'fable for our time', this is the tale of Sprout, a self-named battery laying hen who has one dream: to be a yard hen so she can hatch an egg and raise a baby. She escapes a mass cull operation, and finding herself outside the fence, finds a...

from Cherylk

Spourt is a lay hen. All she does is lay eggs. Her spot in the coop gives her a good view of the barnyard. She can see all the other animals. She is envious of the other chickens and their babies. Spourt dreams of having a baby of her own. However that is not possible as the farmer's wife takes a...

from Jennifer35k

A beautiful story about a hen named Sprout, who was born to live her life in a chicken coop and destined to die in one. Before her death she has only one wish and that is too raise a chick of her own. Not agreeing with her fate, she breaks free of the coop and leaves for more open pastures. On he...