Jen and Tod Bean live on a farm. At the end of every day they go out to the fields to bring the family's six cows home.

One day they discover the gate has been left open and the cows have escaped. They're nowhere to be seen. Jen and Tod know they must find the cows, even if it means following them into the woods to return them to the pasture.

In this classic tale, Margaret Laurence recounts how Jen and Tod overcome their fear of the dark woods to bring the cows home at last.