Title: Cock-A-Doodle-Quack!Quack!Publisher: Picture Corgi
Year: 2006
Found: Borrowed from library
What's It All About?!
Baby cockerel is having a tough time. It's his job to wake everyone up but he doesn't know how.
He asks all the animals what they say in hopes to find the sound he should be making, but none of his attempts work until cat points him in the direction of wise old owl.
Review
I very much like the idea of this story; it is simple and a lot of fun. Repetition and animal noises keep children engaged and encouraged to join in.
In the story, the wise old owl tells the young cockerel to listen. The following morning, he follows the advice but the story does not state that the baby cockerel heard another cockerel on another farm, just that he tries to copy a noise. I found it difficult to explain this to OJ but I feel that older children will grasp the idea.
This book would be great in a farm yard/animal noises topic in early years settings.
OJ:
The first time I read this; OJ was in hysterics that baby cockerel wasn't making the right noise. He was delighted that he could tell me all the various noises that each animal makes and what noise baby cockerel should have been making! OJ loves farm yard stories and the story, a little longer than our usual choosing, still held his attention.
Book worm rating:
out of 5!
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