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　　表演的時間到了！Philadelphia Chickens是你從未遇見過，史上最酷、最in的雞，牠們將要為各位呈現最令人無法想像、精采絕輪的表演。Philadelphia Chickens將偕同牠們的好朋友們一起唱歌、跳舞及演奏樂器，緊接著Philadelphia Chickens出場的是大名鼎鼎的母牛、滑稽的鴨子及惹人憐愛的小狗狗，還有一群白天都在打瞌睡，卻整夜歌唱玩樂、日夜顛倒的夜貓族，牠們就是'The Really Loud Band'！並且你將會認識一位喜歡動物的人，他養了14種不同的動物，但是奇怪的是這14種動物的名字都叫做' Bob'。接著，讀者將會聽到恐龍唱著憂鬱的藍調，會不禁憐憫這隻恐龍可憐的遭遇，這隻恐龍覺得大家都害怕自己、不喜歡自己，所以牠的心情很沮喪，因為事實上他真的是一隻非常善良的恐龍，到底有誰可以讓恐龍快樂起來，並且再次地綻放笑容呢？對了！您猜對了，就是Philadelphia Chickens的詩歌！本書在紐約時報的銷售量排名位居第一，是一本另讀者們開懷的好書，您可以一邊撥放著CD跟著旋律哼哼唱唱，一邊閱讀本書，相信會帶給您意想不到的歡樂氣氛。

　　本書分成兩個部分，第一部分是「邊聽邊看」，讀者可以一邊聽隨書所附的CD，一邊閱讀歌詞及作者為每首歌曲所精心繪製的插畫；第二部分是「邊彈邊唱」，在這裡作者貼心的放入每首歌的樂譜，讓讀者不僅可以邊聽邊唱，甚至可以邊彈邊唱！

　　What an event! What a show! It's catchy and quirky. Tuneful and toe-tapping. Exuberant, unexpected, and utterly endearing. It's what happens when you take America's beloved illustrator and children's author and combine her buoyant genius with some of the most talented people on the stage-presenting Philadelphia Chickens!

　　Created by Sandra Boynton, Philadelphia Chickens is a family musical in a book, bringing together a full-color songbook of 17 1/2 illustrated story-poems with a full-length, fully orchestrated CD of original songs performed by the likes of Patti LuPone, Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep, The Bacon Brothers, and Laura Linney, who pleads "Please, Can I Keep It?"-it followed me home. / What exactly it is,/ I don't know. Also joining in are Eric Stoltz, Natasha Richardson, Scott Bakula, and two Boyntons, including daughter Caitlin McEwan, who performs a piece that every little listener will relate to-a love song to the chocolate chip cookies that are just out of reach. With the collaboration of composer Michael Ford (known to Boynton fans from Rhinoceros Tap), Philadelphia Chickens is that rarest of kids' musical disks-one whose inimitable lyrics and music make it as sing-along, dance-along, cluck-along for parents as it is for their children.