For some unknown reason I am attracted to books with chickens as characters so when I saw this title I thought, why not?! It's a young reader chapter book but I had hoped it would have been more of a picture book. Anyway, Hilda is a determined hen who spends the first half of the book trying to find transportation to visit a nearby farm and the other half as a broody hen trying to hide her eggs. It's cute...and it was written by an English author so the entire read is filled with British terms which was what I loved the most!! On the flip side, might not sit well for some parents reading to their children, most noteably, the steamroller drivers "baccy tin" and the entire chapter where Hilda is taught that hitch-hiking is the answer to all her transportation woes!!