First published in 1949, this picture book is a story composed in rhyme. It is based upon the second of 32 evenings whose events are related in What the Moon Saw, the 1840 story by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. Bergstein credited Andersen with the story on her cover, and expanded on it. In her storybook a well-meaning little girl is scolded by her father for disturbing the hens in a hen house. Afterwards he comforts her when he realizes she meant well. The 19th-century setting was easily changed to that of a kibbutz.