When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.

Of all things, Rooster has forgotten how to crow, or has he?

Twelve-year-old Josh goes to work on his uncle's ranch around calving time and learns how to get a new calf to breathe after it is born.

Twelve-year-old Libby, the daughter of an Indiana cattle farmer, raises two calves in hopes of winning the annual steer competition at the county fair, but fails to follow her father's warning about developing a bond with animals that are destined to be sold at auction.