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"The mayor of the noisy city of La Paz institutes new laws forbidding all singing, but a brave little rooster decides he must sing, despite the progressively severe punishments he receives for continuing to crow. The silenced populace, invigorated by the rooster's bravery, ousts the tyrannical mayor and returns their city to its free and clamorous state"--

El alcalde de la ruidosa ciudad de La Paz instituye nuevas leyes que prohíben todo el canto, pero un gallo valiente decide que debe cantar, a pesar de los castigos progresivamente severos que recibe por seguir cazando. El populacho silenciado, vigorizado por la valentía del gallo, derroca al tirínico alcalde y devuelve su ciudad a su estado libre y clamoroso. "The mayor of the noisy city of La Paz institutes new laws forbidding all singing, but...

Chickens Pip, Midge, and Dot admire Rooster Sam and his ability to fly up to the barn roof, but when they spy on him to see how he does it, they get a big surprise.

Mr. Goodhart tries to stop his rooster from crowing, since roosters are illegal in the town of Bean Blossom, but his noisy bird's behavior ends up saving the town.

The story of a little chick and her dad who take to the beach where he teaches her how to surf.

After a bee scares the cock-a-doodle-do out of him, Rooster anxiously searches the entire barnyard for it.

"Chick leaves the boring coop in order to find his hero, Wonder Pug, and a little bit of excitement." --

A series of unusual stories about chickens. Ranges from a woman who revived a chicken with CPR, a man who raises chickens for his own consumption, a woman who keeps a pet chicken, a group of suburbanites who banded together to stop a neighborhood rooster raiser, a headless rooster, and a man who's life changing experience comes when he sees one of his chickens protect her chicks from a hawk.