Farm Musicale: Cock-a-doodle-do, Creak, Pop-Pop, Moo by Jim Aylesworth

Who needs a band, when you have a constant concerto in progress!

ROOSTER CROWS

COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO

WAKE UP GIRLS, AND LITTLE BOYS, TOO!

It's a semi-rhythmical rehearsal as the kids clatter downstairs, with the frying ham in the skillet providing the percussion--POP POP! From the milking shed, a quartet of milk cows moo a melody. CLUCK go the laying hens looking to be fed. Sparrows peep and baby chicks cheep. Breakfast utensils clank and clink.

The day bring work and very little play, but you can always make music any day..

Pups yip; bees buzz. CAW! complains the crow, as the boys chop wood. Cow bells clink as they slowly let the crickets' chirp call them to line up to return to the barn again, as Ma and Pa rest and rock to the squeak of the porch rockers. Granma's needles click with the beat as the big old clock ticks.

CROW CALLS OUT, HOO HOO, HOO HOO!

GOOD NIGHT, BOYS... AND LITTLE GIRLS, TOO!

And every night on the farm is a nocturne, in Jim Aylesworth's fantasia of farm life, Cock-a-doodle-doo, Creak, Pop-pop, Moo. Every player performs his part in a symphony of sound, and artist Brad Sneed adds his charming illustrations to the performance to make perfect harmony of life.  For class animal sound fun or perhaps for a  soothing bedtime scherzo.