Chicken of the Sea: A book by and for children

Ellie Nguyen (the 4-year old son of Pulitzer and McArthur Genius Grant winning immigrant author Viet Ngyen) and Hien Bui-Stafford (the 13-year old son of illustrator Thi Bui) collaborated to write a silly children’s book called “Chicken of the Sea.”

The plot: Chicken of the Sea tells the story of three farm chickens: Every day they wake up, they lay eggs, they go to sleep … and then they start the process all over again. They’re bored and ready for an adventure, until, one day a rat pirate arrives at the farm ready to enlist the chickens to sail the high seas (“but they’re too dumb to be pirates,” Ellison says).

Very impressive, these children of immigrants!

MHC