Bibo and the Baby Chickens — A Farm Life-Cycle Story | Shalvit Kids TV Storybook No. 68

**Shhh… soft voices! Under Mother Hen are eight little eggs — and Bibo is their quiet, patient watcher!** 🐣🌻

At Grandma's farm compound, something wonderful is happening: a round, russet-brown Mother Hen is sitting on her nest, keeping her eggs warm like a soft, feathery blanket. Join Bibo, Grandma, Kiki, Lulu and good boy Pip for the whole gentle story of new life — **many sleeps of patient waiting**, quiet feet and whisper voices, tiny jobs for a little farmer (sprinkle the feed! fill the water dish!), and then one sunny morning… **wiggle… tap… tap… CRACK!** Out tumbles the first fluffy yellow chick — and then another, and another, until Bibo counts them: **exactly EIGHT chicks — every egg hatched!** A week later they follow their mother in a line across the yard — and Bibo counts them one more time: **still eight!** On every refrain page, the whole family chants: **"Tap, tap, crack — welcome, little chicks!"** 🎵

Told truly and simply, with a gentle-handling promise woven through every page — chicks are watched with eyes and soft voices, only Grandma's cupped hands ever lift one, hands are washed after farm time, and Pip watches politely from far away — this is the life-cycle story parents trust. Its lesson is one children keep forever: *"New life takes time and gentle care — patience and soft hands help babies grow."* 💛

🐣 **What's inside:**

- A complete, gentle farm life-cycle story in short, simple sentences — perfect for ages 2–6 and reading aloud

- The true egg-to-chick journey, step by step: the sitting hen, the warm eggs, the long kind wait (sun-up visits, rain and shine), the wiggle, the crack, the hatch!

- **Three counting-spine pages drawn and numbered in the book itself** — Count the Eggs (exactly **8**), Count the Chicks (exactly **8**), and Count Them Again one week later (**still 8!**) — verified egg by egg, chick by chick

- Bibo's little-farmer jobs: sprinkling feed, filling the water dish, and the hardest job of all — watching quietly

- The gentle-handling rules children can copy: eyes and soft voices, Grandma's cupped hands do the holding, hand-washing after farm time, dogs watch from a polite distance

- Chick school: peck-peck copying Mother Hen, dip-dip drinking, dust-bath giggles, and tucking under Mother's wing at dusk

- The **Tap Tap Crack Song** to sing together, and a chick-line finale with the whole cast

- **Count the Feathers** (exactly 10), **Count the Eggs in the Basket** (exactly 8), a life-cycle **story-ordering activity with answer key**, **Match the Sounds** with answer key, a chick-feelings matching page, a **tiptoe maze**, a farm seek-and-find, Say-It-With-Bibo, word tracing (EGG · HEN · CHICK), patterns, odd-one-out, big-and-small matching, a **Draw the Missing Egg** page (the nest needs eight!), a Quiet Watcher chart, a story quiz and two colouring pages

- A printable **Gentle Farm Helper Certificate** with a name line — just like the one Grandma would give Bibo

- A two-page **For Parents & Grown-Ups** guide: the real life cycle (a hen sits about 21 days), safe chick handling, hand hygiene, dogs around poultry — plus **full answer keys** for every activity

🎓 **What your child will learn:**

- 🥚 The egg-to-chick life cycle — honestly, simply and in the right order

- 🔢 Counting to 8 (three times, three ways!) and to 10 with Mother Hen's feathers

- 🐥 Patience — good things grow slowly, and waiting can be a happy job

- 🤲 Gentle animal care — soft voices, watching eyes, clean hands

- 🌧️ Perseverance and constancy — Mother Hen sits through rain and sun

- ❤️ The heart lesson of the story: *"New life takes time and gentle care — patience and soft hands help babies grow."*

📖 **Book details:**

- **68 pages** of glossy, colourful, cinema-quality 3D artwork featuring the much-loved Shalvit Kids TV cast — Kiki, Bibo, Lulu and Pip — plus Grandma and Mother Hen

- Ages **2–6** — toddlers, preschool and nursery; ideal for farm themes, spring and new-life topics, and first lessons about animals

- **PDF — instant download** after payment; read on any phone, tablet or computer, or print the chart, certificate and activity pages at home

- Storybook No. 68 in the Shalvit Kids TV series — collect them all, starting with *Kiki Counts to Ten*! Pairs perfectly with *Pip Meets the Farm Animals* (No. 7) and *Kiki Visits Grandma* (No. 56)

**Perfect for:** farm and animal themes, spring/Easter new-life topics, patience and gentleness lessons, preschool and nursery classes, Sunday school, grandparents' gifts, and every little one who loves baby animals.

From the makers of *Kiki Counts to Ten* — watch the songs and stories on YouTube: search **Shalvit Kids TV**. 🎵

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