There are six eggs in Mother Hen's nest, but--Chip! Chip! Chip! Chip! Chip!--only five eggs hatch! The sixth egg goes on rollicking romp through the barnyard—and finally into Mother Hen's waiting wings.
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.
