The Chicken Made of Rags: A Musical Play for Children

The Chicken Made of Rags book makes available to the public my family's favorite children's story and musical for generations. The publication of the script in book form now makes it available for schools and theater companies to create new productions for the public to enjoy more widely. As playwright Nina Serrano says in her introduction to the book:
The Chicken Made of Rags is an old family tale, handed down through generations. As children in New York City in the 1930s and '40s, my younger brother, Philip Serrano, and I went to sleep listening to our Uncle Paul's tale of the raggedy Chicken on her way to the big fiesta. Our Uncle Paul heard the story as a child in Cuba at the turn of the twentieth century from his nanny, a former slave