A chicken more than proves his worth as a gardener when an unexpected problem appears. The illustrations are as much fun as the story!

Helga and Erik could not believe their eyes. There were grasshoppers everywhere, and they were eating the crops! In the 1870s, when grasshoppers destroyed farms in Minnesota and other Midwestern states, many families gave up and moved away. This is the story of how two Swedish immigrant children help their parents save their home on the prairie.

As Grasshopper sets out to follow a road, he meets some unusual characters.