When the youngest rooster on the hill decides it is his duty to bring up the moon by crowing loudly each night, the people living nearby dream of rooster soup.
When Daniel's third-grade class raises baby chicks for a class project and he takes the five chickens home for the summer, he is surprised when one of them turns out to be a rooster.
With the questionable help of his friends, Big Brown Rooster manages to bake a strawberry shortcake which would have pleased his great-grandmother, Little Red Hen.
An adaptation of the "Nun's Priest's Tale" from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" in which Chanticleer, a vain rooster, gets embroiled in a treacherous battle of wits with Mr. Fox.