If Rosie's Walk was a pantomime, the children would barrack for Rosie and calling out, 'Look behind you, Rosie. The illustration narrative helps children learn how to make predictions of what might happen to Fox. The images in Rosie's Walk visually help children identify potential dangers on the farm for Rosie and Fox. Hutchins' used a small muted colour palette and patterns to create her illustrations. The story uses age appropriate language to introduce commonly used words that express directions - across, around, over, past, through and under - without young children needing to understand the concept of left and right. The text is simple and yet gives the reader a verbal map of the route that Rosie takes around the farm. Hutchins has masterfully left lots of space on each double page spread for adults to talk to their children about the story and what they see. This story is told using very minimal text, only 32 words. Will Fox catch Rosie or will Rosie make it home in time for dinner?

As the story unfolds we see Fox poised ready to pounce on our unsuspecting hen. However, Rosie is not alone on her journey. In Rosie's Walk our hen struts around the farmyard, navigating the yard's obstacles, she walks past a rake and under beehives. Giving children of all ages a chance to fall in love with our wondering hen, Rosie. This sturdy board book version means that families can share this humorous story with even the smallest readers in the house. During this time the story has continued to be a favourite for many many families. (Aug.In 2018 we celebrated 50 years since the first publication of Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins.

This mild continuation stays so true to Rosie’s Walk that it could’ve easily been published a few years after that book, instead of almost 50. Hutchins reprises her hand-drawn style and autumnal palette, with the action unspooling across the lower margin of the spreads against a backdrop of orchards and haystacks. At last mother and child get together, observed by the original book’s fox and its own little one. As Rosie bumbles along (“Where is her little baby chick?”), she drops the henhouse gate on a pouncing cat and knocks an apple into the jaws of a sharp-toothed fish, inadvertently saving her oblivious chick from peril.

Readers will notice right away that the chick is disguised, its head covered by half an eggshell with only its orange legs and yellow midsection visible. This sequel revisits Rosie, still just as dotty, who is making her way across a barnyard in search of her just-hatched chick.

In 1968’s Rosie’s Walk, celebrated for its combination of deadpan sentences and suspenseful imagery, Hutchins pictured a clueless chicken tailed by a luckless fox.