Why Do Roosters Crow Early in the Morning?: A Book About Farm Animals

PreS-Gr 2–Common questions about the appearance and behavior of farm animals are asked and answered in this nonfiction picture book. Pigs, ducks, roosters, chicks, sheep, and horses are prominently featured in the text. Each animal is given a few pages where they are introduced through a question (e.g., “Why do pigs roll in the mud?”) on the first page, followed by two pages prompting an interactive activity like counting and singing, and concluding on the fourth page with the answer to the initial question posed. The last five pages of the book contain additional facts about the aforementioned animals, as well as information about cows, chickens, donkeys, and ducklings. Additionally, farm vocabulary is introduced through the labeling of the animals and items on each page. The bright palette used in the illustrations brings life to the images drawn in crayon and colored pencil. Most pages stand alone as single illustrations, but some spreads are used to invoke panoramic scenes.