Help Wanted: One Rooster
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
The search for the perfect rooster to save a struggling farm from chaos will leave readers howling—and trying out their very best cock-a-doodle-doo!
A farm.
Bucolic beauty, barns, and...sleepy animals everywhere?
This farm needs a rooster, and Cow is determined to find the perfect candidate.
One rooster, who wakes up first thing in the morning, with a resounding c**k-a-doodle-do—is that too much to ask?
YES!
This tale of a frenzied farm and the beleaguered cow trying to keep it all together packs more than laughs. As each enthusiastic candidate learns: roostering isn’t what you are, but what you do. And there’s room for everyone.
As long as they wake up early—er, I mean brew strong coffee—or is it press the big button?—oh never mind. All are welcome!
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The Office meets Chicken Run in this workplace comedy, in which an "extremely cool and helpful sheep" reveals how a barnyard solves its productivity problem. When the farm's rooster becomes distracted by a hobby and ignores his crowing responsibilities, the whole farm begins to oversleep. The farm's cow ("She has a clipboard. This is a professional cow") conducts interviews, dismissing each nontraditional candidate for replacement rooster. The first, dressed "in an inexplicable tuxedo," wants to ring a bell instead of crowing; the second offers to wake everyone with "fresh, hot coffee"; the third, a small brown bird, wants to press a nonexistent button to do the job; and the fourth, a green, transparent blob, answers questions in its own blobby language ("Glarka-glarka-bloo"). It takes the warm cooperation of all four to get things moving, even if their distinctive gifts don't shift the farm's status quo. Alongside snappy narration from Falatko (Rick the Rock of Room 214), crisp-edged, graphical artwork by Stegmaier (AAALLIGATOR!) packs visual information into busy spreads in which a gardener rabbit dozes while the hose runs, and an audio speaker signals the rooster's new interest. Ages 3–5.
