Explains the growth of a baby chick from the time it hatches from the egg until it is a full-grown hen or rooster.

When her quirky grandmother goes to Hawaii for the summer, nine-year-old Ruty 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.

A hungry wolf's attempts to fatten a chicken for his stewpot have unexpected results.

Describes the physical traits, lifestyle, and behavior of chickens and their role in providing humans with meat.

This book describes chickens and how they are raised on a farm.

When women in an Icelandic village buy chickens to lay eggs for them to use, the chickens follow them, adopting human ways and forgetting their barnyard roots, until the ladies hatch a clever plan.

Although unaware that a fox is after her as she takes a walk around the farmyard, Rosie the hen still manages to lead him into one accident after another.

As see goes round seeing the babies of the other farmyard animals, Dora becomes less and less proud of her first eggs- until they hatch into cute chicks.

Daisy, an unhappy hen in China, floats down the river in a basket and has an adventure.

Still yearning to be seen as heroes, Wolf, Shark, Snake, and Piranha set out to rescue ten thousand chickens from a high-tech cage farm--but one unexpected problem is Mr. Snake himself, also known as "The Chicken Swallower."