While traveling west with her family in 1850, a young girl makes a patchwork quilt chronicling the experiences of the journey and reserves a special patch for her pet hen Josefina.
On an island off the coast of Scotland, a young hen must prove herself pure, wise, and brave in a quest to help her beloved owner, Mem Pocket, from losing her family's farm.
Introduces the short vowel "e" through a rhyming story in which Penny Hen, content to live alone, learns that Jenny is going to buy two more hens and quickly realizes that life by herself could become lonely.