{"product_id":"tackling-the-hens-9781988595948","title":"Tackling the Hens","description":"\u003cp\u003eHens can be fun visitors, when they gossip and sunbathe and pop inside for a chat, but they can outstay their welcome and tackling them to send them home isn't easy. They aren't the only creatures in the pages of this book - there's Ursula the golden-eyed cat, a leporine emperor, singing mice and all the swallows! Then there are the people who interact with them: an entomologist in love with the spiders he observes, a builder who releases a trapped mouse, a woman who attracts bees as a flower does - and Mary and the hens, of course. And there's more to tackle: the steepness of Devon Street, unpicking a cardigan, the loss of a mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere are poems that are busy in the world, telling people's stories, crunching words between their teeth. They remind us at every turn that life is many things at once: long and short, difficult and brilliant, sad and joyful - and, like the hens, all we can do is truck on.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mary McCallum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49088315523323,"sku":"9781988595948","price":25.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0806\/8176\/3067\/files\/9781988595948.webp?v=1784593978","url":"https:\/\/aureliabooks.co.nz\/products\/tackling-the-hens-9781988595948","provider":"Aurelia Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}