King of the barnyard, Chanticleer struts about all day. When afox bursts into his domain, dupes him into crowing, and then grabshim in a viselike grip, Chanticleer must do some quick thinking tosave himself and his barnyard kingdom.

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Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Fatherof English literature, is widely considered the greatest Englishpoet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buriedin Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey . While he achieved fameduring his lifetime as an author, philosopher, alchemist andastronomer, composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe forhis ten year-old son Lewis, Chaucer also maintained an activecareer in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat.Among his many works, which include The Book of the Duchess, theHouse of Fame, the Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde,he is best loved today for The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer is acrucial figure in developing the legitimacy of the vernacular,Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages inEngland were French and Latin. Like Miss Rumphius, the late Barbara Cooney traveled the world,lived in a house by the sea in Maine, and, through her art, madethe world more beautiful.