Cock-a-moo-moo - Hardcover

Juliet Dallas-Conte

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333903811 ISBN 13: 9780333903810

Publisher: Macmillan Distribution Childs, 2001

Synopsis

Poor cockerel has forgotten how to crow and all the animals are teasing him. But when the fox comes sniffing around, cockerel becomes a hero.

About this title

About the Author

Juliet Dallas-Conte is an author and illustrator who lives in London with her Chinese husband and three children. This is her first picture book. Alison Bartlett is the very popular illustrator of two highly successful picture books for Macmillan: Charlie's Checklist and Over in the Grasslands. Welcome to the World, her newest Macmillan picture book, will also be published in March 2002. Alison studied Illustration at Kingston University and now lives in Bristol. She has a three-year-old son, Joel, and loves swimming and cooking.

From School Library Journal

reSchool-Grade 2-Rooster has forgotten how to crow. One morning he greets the sun by calling, "Cock-a-moo-moo!" After the cows remind him that only cows moo, he attempts to wake the barnyard with sounds of cock-a-quack-quack, cock-a-oink-oink, and cock-a-baa-baa. The ducks, pigs, and sheep point out his errors and the other chickens tell him that he is "getting it all wrong," and Rooster sadly decides that he will never crow again. But, that night, when the rest of the farm is sleeping, a fox sneaks into the henhouse. Mooing, quacking, oinking, and baaing, the heroic fowl wakes all the other creatures and they chase away the intruder. A proud rooster then crows, "cock-a-doodle-doo!" And he never gets it wrong again. With its breezy text, thoughtful pacing, and bouncing rhythm, Cock-a-Moo-Moo is an ideal read-aloud. The book lends itself to participation, and children will surely join in on Rooster's mixed-up crows. Bartlett's lush, sunny paintings and the playful design make the full-page spreads seem to quiver with energy. Pair this title with Bernard Most's Cock-a-Doodle-Moo! (Harcourt, 1996) to add a bit of humor and merriment to farm and animal-sound storytimes.
Shawn Brommer, South Central Library System, Madison, WI
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Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan Distribution Childs
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333903811
• ISBN 13: 9780333903810
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 25