Lazy Daisy, Cranky Frankie
Bedtime on the Farm
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
2014 CELI Children's Read Aloud Book Winner
A quirky, rhyming picture book about farm animals behaving badly before bedtime.
This is my cow, she's called Daisy. She should eat grass but she's too lazy. Instead she eats jelly on a spoon, all through the morning till late afternoon. This quirky, rhyming picture book about farm animals behaving badly will have children laughing and, eventually, lull them to sleep along with the tuckered-out animals.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Australian cartoonist Weldon and his partner Jordan present a farm where the animals behave in ways that deviate from the norm. Tidy verse focuses on one animal at a time: "This is my pig,/ she's called Nancy./ She should like mud,/ but she's too fancy./ Instead she stares/ at her reflection,/ My oh my,/ you are perfection,' " reads one segment, as Weldon shows the pig gazing at herself through thick eyelashes and carefully combing the single hair on her head; elsewhere in her pen, earthworms and a mouse look on, and an unseen farmer unloads food scraps for this fancy Nancy's next meal. With half-lidded eyes, quirky accessories, and sometimes menacing stares, Weldon's animals could easily be neighbors to a farm run by Gary Larsen; readers only get brief glimpses of a few promising characters, including a duck with an Olympic medal and a sheep wearing roller skates and a top hat. The ending strikes a gentle note after all the light absurdity that precedes it; readers ought to look forward to a return visit to this one-of-a-kind farm. Ages 4 7.
