# Chicken Boy

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- Book: [Chicken Boy](https://www.bookquiver.com/arthur-parkinson/chicken-boy) ([Chicken Boy.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/arthur-parkinson/chicken-boy.md))
- Authors: [Arthur Parkinson](https://www.bookquiver.com/arthur-parkinson)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4157-367-9
- Published: 2023-04-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Most of us want a dog, or a cat, or a pony when we are young – but for Arthur Parkinson, it was always hens. Growing up in an ex-mining town in Nottinghamshire, the other kids in the playground called him 'Chicken Boy'. The quiet fulfilment of keeping hens became his sanctuary, a tonic for mental and physical health, a connection with his family and the natural world. Illustrated with Arthur's own characterful watercolours and photographs of his ‘girls’, Chicken Boy is a one-of-a-kind memoir of a life in nature.