Nick the Chosen One

<p><strong>Nick the Chosen One</strong> is a story about a beautiful rooster growing up in a suburban home in Sydney Australia. He has a turbulent early life. </p><p>In a backyard full of fruit trees vegetables and free-ranging chooks a little red hen named Meg dreams of hatching her chicks. With Rod's help Meg finally gets her chance-but not all eggs are meant to hatch and one special chick will rise above the rest.</p><p>Meet Nick: part misfit part marvel and 100% rooster. With a voice that won't quit and feathers that gleam Nick is loud proud and impossible to ignore. Nick has a narrow escape from a sneaky fox and a close encounter with the neighbour who can't sleep because of Nicks loud crowing every morning.</p><p>Nick was the chick with the loudest crow</p><p> Up before dawn with a <em>cock-a-doodle-doo</em> show.</p><p> Too loud for the city-but too special to eat</p><p> So off he went on a farm-bound retreat.</p><p>As he journeys from backyard chaos to country calm he meets a giraffe named Zarafa and finds his true place in the world.</p><p>This funny and heartfelt tale about clucky dreams unusual neighbours and what it really means to be <em>chosen</em> will delight young readers-and their grown-ups too.</p>