The Beat Goes On: Farmyard Beat by Lindsay Craig and Marc Brown

SHEEP CAN'T SLEEP!

SHEEP CAN'T SLEEP!

SHEEP CAN'T SLEEP 'CAUSE THEY'VE GOT THAT BEAT!

The sun goes down, but the animals are all up. Chicks hatch and peep to the beat, waking sheep, who get that beat and tap-tap-tap their feet, waking the cat who... Well, you get the drift in this tale in which cows and farm dogs take up the catchy rhythm and and start to swing that music! Only the owl is supposed to be up at this hour, and he finds the whole jam session a real hoot!

Finally Farmer Sue is up and out to see what's going down (or, in this case, what and who are up!) Shining her lantern on the barn dance, she can't resist joining in.

JIG! JIG!
JIGGETY-JIG!

EVERYONE'S DANCING TO THAT BEAT.

T-I-L-L...
...THEY ALL FALL IN A HEAP.
ASLEEP!

As in their 2010 hit, Dancing Feet!, author Lindsey Craig and best-selling creator of the Arthur series, Marc Brown, have another movin' and groovin' dance number for the preschool group in their latest collaboration, Farmyard Beat. Brown's soft, textured, and beguiling paper collage animals add to the appeal and Craig's rhymes and rhythms offer lots of possibilities for singing and moving actities for preschool groups or individual kids who like to move their feet to the beat.