The Arrogant Chicken That Longed to Be a Turkey

By Tania Roumkou

Specky is an arrogand scatter-brained chicken, who eagerly longs to become a turkey, beacause she is unhappy. She can not accept herself and she does not have self-esteem.
So, she wants desperately to change, cause she can not tolearate with the way she looks herself. In this adventure of transformation, she is egged by Old mother witch turkey, who sends her to the famous physician Dr Smartfeather for the big operation! An enormous surprise awaits her to the Big City, where, instead of being transformed into a feathered white turkey she turns into a plucked hen!
Desperate and deformed, she returns to her village. Find out if self-important, Specky learns her lesson from her terrible misadventure and she loves herself at last, getting started a new, life . Finally, Specky become a wise and humble chicken, who offers her help and wisdom at all the animals. In the last pages of this book, you can find exercises and games for children, for the purpose to develop their self-esteem.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tania Roumkou
• Release date: Mar 18, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463987179

Tania Roumkou

Tania Roumkou was born in Thessaloniki of Greece.She has graduated in economics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.Among her special interests are the theatre and poetry. Also, spiritual values play an important part in her life.Tania considers herself to have remained a child at heart, which, according to her, is the best way to stay young and happy.Her love of children inspired the creation of children's stories and CDs, especially for her young friends.As creator of the program 'Let's Explore our Values', she developed a series of stories and activities involving creative play for children to explore the significance of their individual values.Tania has written ten fairy-tales.She also published a book titled Eternal Rose in Greek, in 2012. It is a collection of poems which deals with self-knowledge.The Arrogant chicken that longed to be a Turkey, is a fairy tale which speaks about the values of self-confidence, acceptance & love.It was published in Greek in 2015 and has had very good critics.

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The Arrogant Chicken

that longed to be a Turkey

Copyright 2015 Tania Roumkou

Illustrated by: OrestisErmeidis

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Copyright Tania Roumkou,

Thessaloniki 2015

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Underlying values: Self-confidence, Acceptance, Offering

CHAPTER ONE

THE ARROGANT YOUNG CHICKEN

SNUBS HER BREED

Once upon a time, a brood of hens and turkeys lived happily and peacefully together as one big family in an enclosure in a mountain village. However, not everybody was happy with the arrangement. Take, for example, Mrs Cluck’s young daughter Specky.

Her father had named her Specky as soon as she had hatched, because of her orange and yellow speckled face and neck.

-We’ll call her Specky, announced Mr Cluck proudly, and from then on, that’s what she was always known as. The Cluck family loved and took care of their brood, and were well respected within the bird com- munity. Cheerfully, they clucked all day long.

Mrs Cluck was a very wise hen indeed, a counsellor at law if you please! That’s right, animals can get an education too you know, if they want to. Counsellor Cluck was the best lawyer to come from the feathered family

for more than a hundred years, according to the elderly roosters in the area, who had known her grandfather and great-grandfather before her. Specky, however, lacked self-confidence and had not been happy with the way she looked from the moment she had been hatched.

-Mother, why am I so fat? Why are my legs so short? Why am I

multi-coloured and not fair feathered like my friend the turkey? asked the scatter-brained chicken, tormented by her appearance.

-Don’t trouble yourself with such nonsense, dear daughter. You’re not short and fat, and not alone by any means - all chickens look like that, my love! And being such a beautiful speckled hen makes you stand out from the rest of the brood. You really are very beautiful, you know! answeredMrs Cluck kindly.

-But I wish I was one of those turkeys. Look how pretty they are.

Tall, with long necks and tails that fan out when they open them! Oh mum, why can’t I be a turkey?

Speckyhuffed and puffed and