Hedgie, the hedgehog, helps Henny, the speckled hen, trick the Tomten, who has been eating all of Henny's eggs for breakfast.

Hedgie's friend Henny is sad, the Tomlen is always taking her egg to eat for breakfast and she has no babies. They think up a plan to get the Tomlen to stop taking her eggs.
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This is a great story for fledling readers because the text is simple and the story is easily comprehended and has great illustrations to support the text. The story follws a hen who has her eggs taken every morning by a hungry tomten. Henny dosent like having her eggs taken but puts up with it until she sees Goosey Goosey with gooslings swimming behind her and she tells Henny her eggs have hatched when Henny asks where did they come from. Hennny is so sad that she will never have chicks of her own if the tomten keeps stealing her eggs she is crying so loud that she wakes up her neighbor Hedgie Headchog and he decides to help Henny. The tomten is satisfied without an egg for a few days with eating foods that hedgie leaves in Henny's nest such as strawberries, an acorn, and a potato. The tomten is fine until one day he decides he wants only an egg and tells Henny he is wants an egg tommorow or he is going to eat her. Te next day when the tomten comes to get his egg he finds a surprise left by hedgie. The tomten reaches in Henny's nest and finds not an egg but hedgie rolled up in a ball and the tomten runs off screaming with prickles in his hand. Then Henny's eggs hatch that hedgie had been hiding over the past few days. The author has a highly intresting and interactiive website that offers cool features such as coloring pages and games it also includes an animated lists of her books. The website can be found at http://www.janbrett.com/

Tomten had a hen and every morning he would get an egg from the hen for breakfast. The hen wanted babies so he tried everything to trick Tomten, with help from the hedge hog. He tricked him with a strawberry, potato, acorn, and prickly ball. Eventually Tomten stopped taking hen's eggs and hen had babies!

This book is about a Hen, a Hedge Hog, and a little Tomten. The Tomten was tired of porridge for breakfast so every morning he would come and steal the Hen's egg. The hen went out one day and saw a swan and her little ones. After that, she knew that she too wanted to have little babies but she did not know how she was going to stop the little tomten from stealing her eggs. She tried on her own at first but that did not work, so instead hedgie helped her. They began by tricking the tomten but that only lasted for a little bit. Finally, the tomten said that he wanted an egg or her would eat the hen. Hedgie had an idea to stop the tomten for good and his plan worked. In the end, Hedgie, Henny, and he babies were safe and tomten began eating porridge again.