In this rhyming picture book animal friends learn to get along.

Sonya raises her three chickens from the time they are tiny chicks. She feeds them, shelters them and loves them. Everywhere Sonya goes, her chicks are peeping at her heels. Under her care, the chicks grow into hens and even give Sonya a wonderful gift: an egg! One night, Sonya hears noises coming from the chicken coop and discovers that one of her hens has disappeared. Where did the hen go? What happened to her? When Sonya discovers the answers, she learns some important truths about the interconnectedness of nature and the true joys and sorrows of caring for another creature.

After Hen entrusts Fox with the egg she has just laid and goes off fishing because there is no food in the house, she returns to find an empty egg shell.

For use in schools and libraries only. Silly Minnie finds herself in all kinds of trouble when she accepts a balloon ride from a crafty fox, and it is up to her sensible friend Harriet to rescue her.

One morning on the farm, Henrietta the hen lays her very first egg. Henrietta doesn't realise how special her egg is, so when crafty Red Fox offers to trade it for a juicy, tasty worm, she accepts without hesitation. But Henrietta is horrified to discover that her precious egg is destined for Fox's dinner table.

"Hattie the Hen spots the danger--but no none seems to care!"--Pg 4 of cover.

Flightless, helpless and often, more than a little silly, chickens are no match for the cunning, merciless foxes stalking their coop. Or are they? Thanks to a careless farmer and generations of determined foxes, the chickens on Foxearth Farm have evolved into quick-witted, long-legged, high flying fox dodgers. Then, just a week after a vicious fox ambush in the water trough, three sisters are hatched. And Ransome, Sims and Jefferies are no ordinary chicks: they grow up determined to fight back. They are the legendary Fox Busters . . . From the number one author for animal magic comes this wonderful new edition of a much-loved classic.