James "Gum" Shoo and his friends are on a trip to the River City Natural History Museum, where they discover that a small dinosaur model and some chickens have both gone missing--and the four sixth-grade detectives promptly set out to discover who is behind the theft.
When a chicken jokes about her lost feather, a rumor begins that she is plucking herself to look more beautiful, and as the misunderstanding spreads throughout the coop and neighborhood, it takes on a life of its own. Includes tips for parents on teaching the virtues presented in the story.
Retells the folktale about the little red hen whose lazy friends are not willing to help her plant, harvest, or grind wheat into flour, but are all are eager to eat the bread she makes from it.
A retelling of the classic story of Chicken Licken, begins to panic after an acorn falls on his head and runs to his friends Henny Penny, Lucky Ducky, and others, to tell them the sky is falling.
Pip, Midge, and Dot are curious admirers of Rooster Sam's ability to fly to the top of the barn roof, but when they decide to spy on him the chickens are surprised by what they see.
