De Jong, Meindert

A stray dog earns a home for himself by protecting a little red hen and her chicks from a preying hawk.

Although she always wanted a cat, Millie was never allowed to keep one until she found one next to her Easter basket.

A boy brings home a pet goose for his mother's birthday present, but grandfather threatens to eat it at his own eighty-eighth birthday dinner.

A big black dog came to the farm in search of a home. The little red hen was extremely cocky and sure of herself, but between the two a strange and wonderful friendship grew.

A stray dog earns a home for himself by protecting a little red hen and her chicks from a preying hawk.

A stray dog earns a home for himself by protecting a little red hen and her chicks from a preying hawk.

Alone in a sampan with his pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his parents had escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long and frightening days regaining his family and new home.