Sloane Tanen Books in Order

Tiny yellow toy chickens navigate the pressures of modern life in photographed miniature scenes. Blind dates, crowded yoga classes, social rivalries, and other everyday frustrations become subjects for captions that turn familiar human predicaments into comic tableaux.

Coco the chick travels by skateboard, camel, spacecraft, and other unlikely means toward a mysterious destination. Text and photographed miniature scenes invite young readers to follow her changing surroundings and wonder where the journey will lead.

Tanen's miniature chickens return in photographed scenes about dating, couples' therapy, troublesome children, and middle age. Their human-like dilemmas and ambitions provide a comic look at everyday disappointments, small victories, and dreams of a better life.

Coco the chick travels through the calendar, celebrating holidays and finding activities in every season. Rhymes and colorful photographs introduce months, weather, and yearly traditions through ice skating, April Fool's pranks, summer outings, and festive gatherings.

Coco the chick introduces the alphabet through rhymes and photographs of imaginative miniature scenes. Designed for very young children, the board book pairs letters from A to Z with playful images that invite recognition and shared reading.

Coco the chick introduces numbers from one to ten through rhymes and brightly photographed scenes. This board book gives toddlers a playful way to explore counting, with miniature chickens and visual details to notice during repeated readings.

Tanen's toy chickens tackle pregnancy and the first year of motherhood through photographed scenes and comic captions. Epidurals, stretch marks, diaper troubles, and childcare become subjects for a humorous look at the demands of having a baby.

Photographed miniature chickens take on the anxieties and absurdities of school life. Cliques, gym lessons, teachers, and returning to class become subjects for comic scenes that mirror the social pressures and everyday frustrations familiar to teenagers.

An essay contest sends aspiring writer Francesca on a literacy trip with celebrities she has admired from afar. A plane crash strands them together, exposing rivalries and insecurities as she discovers how little glamour helps with survival.

Retired film producer Marty Kessler's opioid problems and his former wife's drinking bring an estranged family together at a Malibu rehabilitation center. Their children and grandchildren face the burdens of celebrity, aging, and complicated shared histories.