A rich and greedy sultan meets his match in a VERY cheeky little red rooster... Hilariously wacky tale by bestselling author of War Horse.

Children will love to explore the bright and noisy barnyard in this wonderful collection of poems from the award-winning author and illustrator team of Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz.

When the rooster loses its voice and must ask the cow for help to wake everybody, the resulting sound provides a hearty laugh for the farmer and his animals.

"While the rooster is gone, the pig, cow, sheep, and other farm animals attempt to rouse Farmer McPeeper with "cock-a-doodle SQUEAL," "cock-a-doodle MOO," and "cock-a-doodle BAAAA," with hilarious results"--

Long ago in the town of Bethlehem, young Harold the rooster keeps failing to wake the other farm animals in the morning, but when a young woman gives birth to a very special baby in the stable, Harold is finally able to crow loudly and help spread the good news.

A counting and identify-the-animals-and-their-sounds book in sturdy borad book format. One by one (and two, three, four all the way to ten!) the animals on the farm wake up to the rooster's crow. Horses must be fed, cows must be milked, ducks must go off for a swim. Loudly and happily, the farm swings into a day of boisterous busyness, punctuacted by clucks and moos and neighs. Youngsters will love counting and indentifying the animals, imitating their sounds, an playing hunt and find as they locate the little mouse that travels from page to page. Never before have the myriad activities of a barnyard been duplicated with such rollicking good humor!

The pictures show a different animal in its setting on every spread, starting with a cock crowing in the morning to the animals safe in the barn for the night. There is also a rhythmic text which tells the stories of what the animals do.