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What is a Peachick?

by Erika McGann, illustrated by Clive McFarland

Interest age: 4 to 5

Published by O’Brien Press, 2024

  • Funny
  • Picture books
  • Poetry and rhyme

About this book

What exactly is a peachick? One girl decides to investigate. Does it come from a pea pod? Do other vegetables also have chicks? Perhaps everything has chicks and there are cushion chicks and toothbrush chicks in the house? Oh dear, will we ever know? (Perhaps this peacock – and his peahen – might have the answer?) 

This slightly surreal picture book has a rollocking rhyme that pulls the reader through the pages. The flights of fancy are madereal by Clive McFarland’s energetic illustrations, with inanimate objects brilliantly anthropomorphised.Young children might like to suggest other possibilities for what a peachick might be, especially at the end, and there is scope to discuss other things that might have chicks too. A super-fun book for sharing with little ones. 

About the author

Erika McGann grew up in Drogheda and now lives in Dublin. She has a respectable job, very normal friends and rarely dabbles in witchcraft. She loves writing stories that are autobiographical. Sort of. The Demon Notebook was her first book, the sequel to it The Broken Spell is also published by The O'Brien Press.

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