chickens

Minerva Louise, a snow-loving chicken, mistakes a pair of mittens for two hats to keep both ends warm.

When her quirky grandmother goes to Hawaii for the summer, nine-year-old Ruby learns to survive on her own in Mississippi by writing letters, befriending chickens as well as the new girl in town, and finally coping with her grandfather's death.

Photographs and text record the changes chickens go through as they grow from birth to adulthood.

Photographs and text trace the life cycle of the chicken, from egg, to embryo, to chick, to full-grown hen or rooster.

Two hens, who love to compete against each other, insist that each has the best chick.

A hen and three chicks are saved from a bad dream by a duck and three ducklings.

A shy king, wishing to be included in the Egg Dance celebrated by his subjects, concocts a desperate scheme involving the disappearance of their chickens.

Four chickens leave the coop in search of the farmhouse and are surprised by the things they discover.

Soon after the chickens tire of their feed and decide to make tortilla chips and salsa, all the other animals on Nuthatcher Farm start to crave southwestern cuisine. Includes three recipes on endpaper.

While trying to escape from a wolf, four frightened chickens keep getting themselves into the very predicaments they are trying to avoid.