Chicken Sunday is the second book I chose to read by Patricia Polacco. Though I did not enjoy this book nearly as much, the story was cute and I could see how it would teach good lessons to children about diversity. I would be more likely to keep Pink and Say in the classroom than this one.
This story is about a young girl and her neighbors, Winston, Steward, and their grandmother, Eula Mae Walker. Though she points out that they are not the same religion, her mother let her go to the baptist church on Sundays with the Walker family. These Sundays are called chicken Sundays because they always have fried chicken after church. Eula Mae loves hats! Every Sunday after church they pass Mr. Kodinski's hat shop and Eula Mae admires the lovely Easter hat. The children decide to find a way to make money and buy her the hat as a surprise. At first they are afraid of Mr. Kodinski, but the young girl's mother helps them approach Mr. Kodinski and blend cultures.
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