This may be an old book, but it was really fun. Alexandra has been ignoring her dog Fletcher to play with some new baby chicks. Fletcher feels left out and asks his friends Otter and Beaver for help. They decide that Fletcher needs to act like a chick and hatch out of an egg. You have to love friends that are willing to build you an egg to hatch from. This was a lovely story with fun art. But it does tell its age.