Chicks Don't Eat Candy

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Pub Date Mar 22 2022 | Archive Date Mar 01 2022

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Description

For ages 0-5

Do chicks like sweets? No! They like worms much better.

In this light-hearted book, learn what taste buds are and about all the different flavors. Chicks Don’t Eat Candy is perfect for home or for classroom read alouds. Kids love shouting out the answers to silly questions like "Can kids taste candy?" This call and response format is a time-tested method for keeping kids engaged and interacting, instead of just chewing on the pages.

Book 6 of 6 in the Awesome Animals Series

Chicks Don’t Eat Candy is the final installment in the series:

1. Snakes Have No Legs

2. Pigs Never Sweat

3. Geckos Don’t Blink

4. Cows Have No Top Teeth

5. Turtles Have Secret Ears

6. Chicks Don't Eat Candy

The Awesome Animals series is a collection of weird but true books for kids about the animal kingdom. Half fact and half fun, each book features an animal which is missing something that we're taught to expect should be there. But these animals don’t just thrive despite that absence, they thrive because of it.

All books use a dyslexia-friendly type-face. With dyslexia, we often focus on the challenges - difficulty reading. But thanks to the way the dyslexic brain is built, people with dyslexia are often creative, intuitive and highly successful. In other words, those people aren't thriving despite their dyslexic brain, they are thriving because of it.


For ages 0-5

Do chicks like sweets? No! They like worms much better.

In this light-hearted book, learn what taste buds are and about all the different flavors. Chicks Don’t Eat Candy is perfect for...


A Note From the Publisher

About Kelly Tills:- Kelly is the creator of her own uniquely shaped family. She writes silly, funny books for kids. Kelly believes even the smallest hat-tip, in the simplest of books, can teach our kids how to approach the world. Kelly’s children’s stories are perfect to read aloud to your little humans, or to have your older kids read to you (hey, let them flex those new reading skills!). Either way, you’ll enjoy the giggles.

About Kelly Tills:- Kelly is the creator of her own uniquely shaped family. She writes silly, funny books for kids. Kelly believes even the smallest hat-tip, in the simplest of books, can teach our...


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ISBN 9781955758062
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Featured Reviews

Cute and quick little children's book. Well done, and fun. The book is about, quite simply, the fact that chicks don't eat candy. I feel bad for the chicks. But, if I were still a little kid, I'd delight in this book. While eating some chocolate kisses.

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Pros: I'm constantly looking for books to share with my favorite kids, and I love this series of books about awesome animals. This book is charming and interactive and would be a fantastic read aloud book for a preschool class. It also teaches children about the sense of taste.

My favorite thing about this series is its use of dyslexia-friendly type-face. This feature was something I did not know to look for before reading this series. I so appreciate when publishers make reading more accessible to children.

Cons: None that I can think of!

Thank you to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for the opportunity to read this book!

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I LOVED this one! How cute is this little chick? This book tells us what chicks don't eat, and what they should eat. But then it goes one step further and gives us some information about how chicks taste, and how they have a more limited sense of taste, compared to humans, because they have fewer taste buds. WHO KNEW? I loved the illustrations and the large swaths of color. It was simple but amusing and would easily hold the interest of a child listening to it. This would be perfect for an Easter basket!

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A fun, short, story that teaches children about taste buds and why we can taste certain things. Children will love reading this book and answering the questions asked. The author balances the facts presented with enough fun and silly content and illustrations to keep kids engaged.
A 4.5 star read for me as I wasn't keen on the illustrations, but I do think kids will like them.

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My kiddo got really excited about her taste buds after I read this to her. She was amazed that her tongue is designed to taste different flavors and now I often catch her with her tongue out in front of the mirror, trying to see her taste buds. Anything that gets her interested in learning more about how the body works gets a A+ in my book.

Thank you to Kelly Tills, BooksGoSocial, and NetGalley for the opportunity to review this free e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

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This is a cute concept to teach a child about taste and taste buds. My hesitation in rating it higher was the artwork was a bit disappointing and there was one like about "pancakes make it hard to poop" that was a little bizarre.

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This was a lovely book. It describes food preferences and was easily descriptive which made it easy for her to understand. My daughter read it easily and found the pictures funny. She said she liked the story.

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I LOVE this book. The drawings! So cute! I want to hug the little chick ... and all the human foods it can't eat ... well, that's just too much.

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This is an amazing series by Kelly Tills. These books should be a part of all children's libraries. The author shares interesting facts in a clever and entertaining way. I can't wait to find out the subject of her next book.

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Another great entry to this series! This is a cute exploration of baby chicks and how taste buds work. It's a fun, easy way to learn a bit of science while also making practicing reading enjoyable. This would be a great book for early independent readers as the text is fairly simple and is broken up in manageable chunks. As with this entire series, the book is presented in a bottom-heavy font with extra spacing that may make reading easier for kids with dyslexia or other information processing differences.

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review!

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Short and sweet with some educational information. The graphics were great for the target reader age!

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Chicks Don't Eat Candy is the sixth book in author Kelly Tills' Awesome Animal Series. It is a wonderful children's nonfiction book that highlights the function of tastebuds in a fun and entertaining way.

The illustrations are cute. Though I seem to think that they could use more color so that the illustrations would "pop" out from the pages. But, the message is clear -- humans have sophisticated and discerning tastebuds for tasting different flavors.

Overall, Chicks Don't Eat Candy is a delightful book that is sure to please a toddler or preschooler. Four fabulous stars.

I received a digital ARC from BooksGoSocial through NetGalley. The review herein is completely my own and contains my honest thoughts and opinions.

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I love these books, I’ve already reviewed a few. They’re such fun. The illustrations and little chick are cute, as is sharing the book together, and finding out what chicks eat. Nicely written and presented.

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I received this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Chicks Don't Eat Candy, what about little kids? This is a book that's both cute and funny. The pages are extremely colourful, the artwork are simple, that will appeal to very young readers.

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Chick Don't Eat Candy is a cute book that breakdowns how taste buds work, what various animals eat and why they do so, as well as the differences and similarities in how humans and chicks learn to eat. The illustrations are adorable and gives this informative book a silly feel.

Special thanks to Netgalley for the eARC in exchange for my honest review.

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Find out what a chick eats as this book navigates through the possibilities. With the colorful illustrations my six year old daughter read this book with no difficulties. She can't wait to see what's next in this series!

Thank you Netgalley and BooksGoSocial for the opportunity to read this book.

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Thank you, NetGalley, for an e-ARC of Chicks Don't Eat Candy by Kelly Tills.
Chicks Don't Eat Candy is a simple non-fiction book that introduces the concept of taste to young children. The book uses simple text and humor to teach the concept. I look forward to using this book during preschool storytime and anticipate my library purchasing all the titles in this series.

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This was such a short and sweet read! The cover and title were intriguing, and as Kelly Tills is one of My favourite children's writers, I had to request this book. I found the concept of taste buds difficult to understand as a child, and this simplified it so much. I wasn't aware of this fact about chicks, but I quite liked it and how it was explained in deferment kids. Short, catchy lines with simple drawings is the perfect combo for kids. If you want to buy something for kids, please buy this book along with the rest of the collection!

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My baby chick loves this picture book series, and this one is a cute new addition to the Awesome Animals series.

You can learn something new and funny thing about animals like geckos, pigs or chicken. Each book uses a different colour, and I quite like this purple. The information is easy to digest, the accompanying illustration is simple, and these books are ideal for reading out or cuddling up with your kind and reading together. Having read this book we went for the bathroom to check in the mirror what taste buds look like... haha.

Many thanks to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for an Advance Reading Copy.

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Very cute quick read that's also informative! Spaghetti worms should get their own book too! I enjoyed the illustrations as well.

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Thank you to the author, BooksGoSocial and NetGalley, for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I was not familiar with this series, but the idea and the execution is great for young children. Taking a look at the function of taste buds (and who has them, and who doesn't), this is a fun way to explore biology while still keeping it simple and relatable.

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I always learn something new when I read this series of animal books, and in this one I learned that chicks don't have sweet taste buds on their tongues, so they can't taste sweet foods. I was quite surprised at this. This book is fun, it is easy to read and it has nice graphics. It is an enjoyable book, which young children will love.

Many thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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One interesting book, definitely for younger kids, the knowledge on why chicks don't eat candy. I myself just know this fact after all these times, and this book explains it beautifully. With somewhat hilarious facts (but true), this is a must have book, moreover if you have kids and chicks.

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The only reason I won't adopt this for the classroom is because it seems geared towards much younger students. This book is very light-hearted and is good for call and response, which keeps the child engaged. I love that this is a series and I would be curious to try with my future children when they're little. I also LOVE that this uses a dyslexic font. As someone with dyslexia, it makes a world of difference!

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Silly yet interesting! You'll definitely learn a new thing out of this! A tiny one with cutest illustrations!

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