chickens

A mother hen wakes up one morning to find a gigantic egg among the others in her nest and goes in search of the egg's origin.

When Elinor, who is sometimes just a little naughty, makes friends with Violet, who is much naughtier, Elinor almost spoils the visit of her favorite aunt.

A baby chicken accepts a young boy as her mother and later becomes a surrogate mother for some ducklings that she has hatched.

As she goes around seeing the babies of the other farmyard animals, Dora becomes less and less proud of her first eggs--until they hatch into cute chicks.

Hilda Hen finds birthday presents even in places her farm friends didn't intend.

While wondering if they will remain best friends after Broody Hen's six eggs hatch, Little Chick and Duckling investigate several big, scary things on the farm.

Illustrations and simple text tell a story about a little girl who visits Mrs. Sato's hens and counts the eggs in the nest.

Photographs of baby chicks are used to illustrate such opposite concepts as inside/outside, asleep/awake, and alone/together.

Cole and Crystal learn a lesson about the importance of good manners when they have a run-in with weird Vanessa, Goshen Falls's resident sorceress.