Bob

Bob by Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead, 201 pages.
When ten-year-old Livy's mom has a new baby it's decided that Livy should visit Gran Nicholas on her farm in Australia for a while. Livy hasn't been to see Gran for five years, but she has a vague memory that one of Gran's chicken's was weird. When she enters the room she stayed in as a five-year old she's a bit surprised to find Bob there. When she sees him she remembers something, but not everything comes back right away. Bob tells her that she told him to wait quietly in the closet and that she would be right back. Bob, a smallish green creature in an ill-conceived chicken suit, and Livy try to recall what happened five years ago, what it was that brought them together, and how they might get Bob back home. Pretty delightful.