When five hens leave the coop to go pecking for grain, five little chicks are left all by themselves for the day. At first the chicks -- Ivan, Lily, Leonard, Shirley, and narrator Anthony -- cry. Then, they get scared: what if their moms never come home? What if a fox finds them? The chicks must work together to brave the day without their mothers. When the hens return to the coop with delicious grain at lunchtime, all but one of the chicks...