There are six eggs in Mother Hen’s nest, but--Chip! Chip! Chip! Chip! Chip!--only five eggs hatch! The sixth egg goes on a high-rolling adventure across the barnyard, past the pig and the tomato patch, and, finally, into Mother Hen’s waiting wings. What a wild ride! Lisa Campbell Ernst’s bold, energetic illustrations transform a short trip across the barnyard into a rollicking good time.
Brought up in the southern story-telling tradition in Georgia, Claire Daniel moved to New York to follow her dream of becoming a writer armed with an ancient manual Royal typewriter, She wrote five plays, and won minor awards and had one production in 1992. When her savings ran out, she became an editor in educational publishing.
In 1989, she left corporate life and began freelance writing. Now she writes fiction, historical fiction, and nonfiction books. She has also written for NPR and the Boston Globe. Today she is working on a novel set on the northern shores of Maine.
