Hen’s romance with Fox, introduced in the breathless picture book The Chicken Thief (U.S. edition: Enchanted Lion, 2010), is maturing nicely, and the couple has reached the next milestone in their life together: Hen is with child—or, with egg. But the cupboard is bare, and she passes the egg off to Fox for some bonding time while she and Crab venture out with a fishing pole. What starts out as a calm day at sea turns into a monumental Big Fish Story, as the duo is carried aloft by a raptor and dropped into its nest of Big Baby Birds with gaping maws. An escape immediately plunges them into an epic sea battle with something that looks a bit like the Loch Ness Monster, but Hen, victorious, eventually arrives home toting the dead sea creature. Her success is stifled when she discovers a broken egg shell next to a frying pan on the kitchen table. About to bean the infanticidal Fox with the frying pan, she sees in the nick of time that he’s cuddling a hybrid fox-chicken baby. Clever illustrations carry this amusing wordless sequel. (Ages 4–8)

Fox and Hen Together continues the wordless story of The Chicken Thief, focusing on Fox and Hen’s life together. As the illustrations quickly reveal, Crab has become a fast friend, Fox and Hen have an empty refrigerator, and Hen has laid an egg. As to the fate of her egg, that will take a little longer to reveal itself. And here again, the chase is on, but this time it's Hen who is in pursuit!

Béatrice Rodriguez is the author of The Chicken Thief, which received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal as well as a rave review in The Wall Street Journal.