Book Club Kit: The Chicken Sisters is one of a new series of supporting brochures and materials available for fiction and nonfiction titles from Penguin Random House Librarian Resources. Released 11th Feb 2021 by Penguin Random House, this entry is filled with interesting background history to enhance the personal or book-club reading experience for K.J. Dell'Antonia's engaging story about the meaning of family, friendship, and female relationships, which was published in 2020. This brochure is 7 pages long and includes book discussion questions, some book related recipes, and a short Q&A interview with the author.
I enjoy the extra resources and enhancements the larger publishing houses are able to employ to support their publications. I also appreciate that most library systems can provide quite a lot of extra support and guidance to their patrons and groups. These materials would be appropriate for online/remote discussion groups, formal education (modern literature, sociology, culture, and allied subjects), and for enhancing personal reading.

Five stars. Compact, succinct, and with beautiful typesetting and colorful graphics. It does -not- include the original book, just the discussion and support materials. Available free from the publisher's website.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

Amazing inspiring and thought provoking questions that are PERFECT for any book club meeting. Highly highly recommend. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I think this is a great guide to follow for any book club discussions. The questions are though provoking and the recipes are a fun addition!

Thanks to the publisher for providing this book club kit! I found this to be very useful to have. I think the suggested questions are thought provoking. The recipes at the end were a wonderful thought/idea to add to this. This makes me want to make this our book club pick for March so I can make this food with my club.

I loved getting to look through this fun Book Club Kit for The Chicken Sisters by KJ Dell'Antonia.
I haven't read this book yet but it's on my radar after being a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick last year. especially after reading the interview with the author and learning more about the plot.
There are a few recipes and discussion questions included to make your book club night a perfectly themed hit. The packet is beautiful with artwork that compliments the book's cover art.
Thanks to Penguin Random House Library Resources and NetGalley for the advance copy.

Since The Chicken Sisters was chosen as the December 2020 Reese's Book Club selection, I have no doubt that many suburban reading groups will be discussing this title in the coming months. This seven-page guide will come in handy!

I haven't yet read this novel, and to be honest the title itself doesn't appeal to me. I think the graphic design of the cover is gorgeous though, and the Book Club Kit carries the style throughout.

The Kit includes:
- Nine typical discussion questions, like "Consider the various connotations the word 'chicken' has in the book. How do the different characters 'play chicken' with one another?"
- Two pages of A Conversation with (author) KJ Dell'Antonia, in which we learn things like where she got the idea to write this book as well as her thoughts on social media and reality TV.
- Recipes from KJ's Kitchen, specifically Super Simple Sweet Vinegar Salad Dressing, Frank's Family Fried Chicken, and Mae's Magic Chocolate Cream Pie. All sound delicious (and thankfully don't include calorie counts!).

All these elements combined make a pretty helpful, if somewhat standard, book club kit. Reading through it did actually make me want to read the novel now! And eat fried chicken.

I loved that there are recipes included in this discussion kit and I also thought the illustrations were beautiful. However, the questions posed seemed very shallow and one dimensional. I haven’t read The Chicken Sisters, but these questions made me feel like I wouldn’t enjoy it as there appears to be no depth for a book marketed towards adults. Example: question 6 asks how one of the character’s family reacts when they learn they have been chosen for a tv competition show. It then asks how I would react. It feels like a question better served for a 5th grader than readers of a widely popular novel chosen by a national book club.

I appreciate the opportunity from NetGalley and Penguin Random House to review this book discussion kit.

This is not the actual book. It’s is a list of questions to help with a book club. It also had some pretty good recipes to try out. I can’t wait to read book and have discussion with book group. Thanks to publisher and NetGalley.

I really thought this was going to be the whole book which I've wanted to read but I was wrong. I guess I don't know that a Book Club Kit is a series of questions and answers written by the author for a book club. I did learn somethings about the book without reading it though. It was worth downloading for a sneak peek into the book I still want to read.

I so not know what I expected but it wasn’t this. The formatting is terrible the questions are not that great. Thanks to Netgalley, the author and the publisher for the arc of this book in return for my honest review. Receiving the book in this manner had no bearing on this review.