Chickaboo the ostrich is getting her own book!

Chickaboo, safe back home at Ostrich Wonderland, getting a treat from owner Casey Teh. The farm is in Semenyih, Selangor. Photo: The Star/Desiree Gaspar

Chickaboo is, without doubt, the most famous ostrich in the country. After her now-legendary run down the Federal Highway in the Klang Valley earlier this year was recorded on video and uploaded on social media, the ostrich has been made into many Internet jokes and memes, been featured in advertisements, and even been invited onto radio shows and to university open days!

She’s become the most well known big bird since ... well, Big Bird. And now, Malaysia’s favourite flightless bird is poised to take the literary world by storm as the subject of a children’s picture book. (A “Chickabook”, perhaps? Sorry, couldn’t resist!)