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Six Little Chicks really began with me playing around with the word Peck; I liked how the repetitive action of pecking could be relayed through the repeat of the word. Children like repetition and ‘Peck, Peck, Peck’ produces a great percussive sound. Then I realised there were other nice-sounding words such as kick, hop, flap and scratch which could work with this triple-repeat set up. The word peck made me think of chickens and I realised that all the other actions I had come up with can also be done by hens and chicks; this is how the characters and the setting of a hen house came about...

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