Kalandraka presents an adaptation of a traditional tale for first readers. This is a story written in rhyme with a cumulative and chained structure, with rhythm based on the repetition of a stanza.

The hen has to go to several characters to seek help to save her chick. All of them must give an element that is crucial for each to perform its function: the cloud gives water that feeds the plot that produces grass that feeds the goat that provides leather to the shoe-maker who makes the shoes of the owner of the hazel grove where the hen and the chick are living.