Everyone in Goshen Falls knows about weird Vanessa. She dresses all in black and wears black lipstick. People say she puts spells on people. Crystal and her brother Cole made Vanessa mad. After she whispered that strange warning, "Chicken chicken" something weird has happened. Crystal's lips have turned as hard as a bird's beak, and Cole has started growing ugly white feathers all over his body.

An enterprising chicken attempts to help an artist paint the barnyard and accidentally turns the whole picture blue.

"A trip to the grocery store provides inspiration for new high jinks--this time with homonyms and homophones..."--P. [4] of cover.

"A ordinary chicken discovers what makes him super--inside and out"--

A family learns about raising chickens when they buy baby chicks from a local farm.

A baby chick named Peepsqueak does not listen to the advice of Big Brown Cow, Big Sheep, Yellow Duck, and Baby Bunny, and tries again and again unsuccessfully to fly, until Old Gray Goose gets involved.

When she accidentally knocks one of the eggs out of the chicken coop, Dot has to find the courage to recover the egg despite her many fears.