Funny and clever as always with the Willis/Ross combination, this is also a very serious commentary on the dangers of the Internet. The little chicken goes into the farmhouse at night and turns on the computer. She quickly begins to order all sorts of exciting things - a teapot shaped like a cat, a moterbike and a hive of bees. The farmer is perplexed. Surely he hadn't ordered these things! Each night she orders more and more, and the farmer and his wife (imply parents here) are soon completely flummoxed. When she begins to order exciting things for all her farmyard friends (buying friendship is implied here), she realises that all this time online has made her lonely, and she needs a friend. This she looks for online as well, and after a reply from another chicken, whose picture she sees, she goes off to meet him in the forest without telling her parents. I won't spoil the end by saying just who she meets, but it certainly isn't a chicken, and the end is fairly shocking! This is the kind of book that will appeal and be useful to some children; others will be horrified, but will certainly take the moral to heart. I wonder if scaring children is quite the way to go, even though it's done in a humorous and clever way. The point is certainly strongly made, but some care should probably be taken in using the story.