Henrietta the chicken loves to read so much she writes a book, but no one will publish a book written by a chicken, and then, when she publishes it herself and it gets a bad review in "The Corn Book," Henrietta is devastated.
Henrietta is a reader and a writer, unusual traits for a chicken, but when her book is published and she is invited to the Children's Book Festival, only the local librarian believes she is the author.