Minerva Louise, a snow-loving chicken, mistakes a pair of mittens for two hats to keep both ends warm.

Rooster Sam unwittingly saves the hens of Loopy Coop Farm.

Minerva Louise follows a farmer in a red hat from a snowy rooftop, down a "well, " and into the house with the red curtains, where she finds a tree decorated with sparkling eggs.

"When she notices several unattended, colorful eggs in the barnyard, the hen named Minerva Louise worries that they are abandoned and cold."--Title page verso.

Pip, Midge, and Dot are enjoying the shade under an apple tree when fruit starts falling around them, causing the hens to suspect a fox is in the tree trying to hit them.