War of the Sexes! Chicks Rule! by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen

The science-nerd boy chicks have posted a sign on their Rocket Club:

NO CHICKS ALLOWED

The girl chicks are more than miffed. They've got tech smarts, too!

Female chicks are motivated to MARCH!

Cool chicks and nerdy chicks
Quiet chicks and wordy chicks.

Biker chicks and rocker chicks,
Science chicks and soccer chicks.

Chicks who draw and chicks who read...
CHICKS WHO FOLLOW AND CHICKS WHO LEAD!

Signs and posters bloom in front of the boys' clubhouses.

GIVE CHICKS A CHANCE!

Girl chicks realize  that carrying signs is not enough for the boy chicks have to get the message. It's time to be proactive! The girl chicks know they have to prove they can get it off the ground. And do they know the way to operate? Yes! Chicks know how to cooperate.

To mount their own space race, each chick must take her place. The chicks pitch in to raise their gantry and build their spacecraft, wing to wing, and....

Chicks of different flocks and feather,
Work to reach the stars together.

Their launch is successful, and it's no surprise that the No. 1 Nerd Boy Chick hastily makes a small change in his Rocket Club's sign:

NO CHICKS ALLOWED

It's the old war of the sexes, a boys against girls story, with some fun play on the word "chick" to mean girl, in Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen's second book in series starring her cute chick kids, Chicks Rule! (Abrams books, 2019). Even Shakespeare had a go with the war of the sexes, and this new one features storytelling with some jolly internally-rhyming couplets and the charming illustrations of Renee Kurilla, whose girl-chick characters are inspired, with surfer chicks and hijabi chicks who join in to do their share of protest marching and rocket constructing with great flare. A fun entry for our times for the primary set during Women's Month.

"I am woman, hear me peep!" quips Kirkus Reviews.

Barden-Quallen's other books include Tyrannosaurus Wrecks!: A Preschool Story, Quackenstein Hatches a Family, (see reviews here) and her popular Purrmaids series.