chickens

A photo essay about the first six to eight months in the life of a duckling, abandoned before hatching and later adopted by a farmyard hen.

Photographs, drawings, and text on two different levels of difficulty follow the development of a chick embryo from the fertilization and laying of the egg to the time the chick hatches.

Describes, in simple text and illustrations, how chickens are born and raised on a farm.

Photographic presentation of what happens inside the chicken egg during its twenty-one day incubation period.

Simple text and full-color photographs provide a brief introduction to chickens.

A collection of three stories in which Little Chick learns how to deal with life's disappointments with the help of his beloved auntie.

When Hen overhears some news on the farm, she runs to tell Duck, who tells another animal, and as the gossip is repeated from one animal to the next, it becomes unrecognizable.

Relates the story of the summer Josh spends while his mother is in the hospital awaiting the birth of his baby sister, and his pet chicken Semolina, who talks but only to him, is almost killed by a red fox.

Little Chick ventures away from her mother and discovers the wonders of the world beyond home.

Caitlin and her parents rescue a hen from a lake, name her, and take her home with them, but even after they return her to the farm where she lives, her presence is still felt in Caitlin's family.