ay Red Hen Crowed is one in a series of barnyard stories written by Robby Barbarian, who believes that every child deserves to laugh because "it shouldn't hurt to be a child." Growing up in a household of seven girls and four boys on a rural farm in Scotland Neck, North Carolina, on a bootleggers' farm surrounded by chickens, cows, pigs, and haylofts, Robby enjoyed farm life as a child and the magic of growing up on it.