Tuesday Storytime: Farm Animals

These were selected by my coworker.

Peppa Pig and the Easter Rainbow
No Author Listed
ISBN: 9780763694388

When it rains on the Easter Egg Hunt, things could have been ruined, but Peppa and her friends look to the Easter Rainbow for inspiration and find out that everything's better when it's multicolorful!

The Cow Said Neigh!
Rory Feek, illustrated by Bruno Robert
ISBN: 9781400311712
This building-rhyming story details how wanting to be something you're not can sometimes cause the whole farm to self-destruct. In a fun and zippy way, of course, with everything coming (mostly) all right in the end.

No Sleep for the Sheep!
Karen Beaumont, illustrated by Jackie Urbanovic
ISBN: 9780152049690
Poor sheep in the barn just wants some shut-eye but EVERY OTHER ANIMAL is up, and heading NOISILY to bed in that self-same barn. How on earth is Sheep ever going to get to sleep with all this racket and all these neighbors?

Tuesday Storytime: Cows

I've done farms, and barnyard animals, and chickens, and I think even horses, but I don't think I've ever done cows before, so my cohort stepped into the gap with this riotous storytime. I think a pattern is emerging: she's way more comfortable and passionate about "funny" storytimes, and that's absolutely a perfect fit, because my sense of humor is a little... weird.

The Cow that Laid an Egg
Andy Cutbill, illustrations by Russell Ayto
ISBN: 9780061372957
Marjorie doesn't have any special talents, but if the chickens' plot goes to plan, she's going to be the most talented cow on the farm. Now there's all sorts of consternation: what exactly is going to hatch out of that egg?

Chicken, Pig, Cow and the Purple Problem
Ruth Ohi
ISBN: 9781554512195
When the girl made the pig and the chicken, she had the right colors, but when she made the cow, all she had for spots was purple clay. Cow doesn't match the pictures in the books, and heads out into the wild to sort herself out properly. Along the way she discovers things much more important than what color your spots are.

When Cows Come Home
David L. Harrison, illustrated by Chris L. Demarest
ISBN: 0563971437
A truly silly rhyming romp through cow-themed situations taken to extremes, and populated by blissfully dancing cows. Reminds me of a long version of Sandra Boynton's style of silliness.

Tuesday Storytime: Chickens

A bit off the beaten track, but hey, Chickens and baby chicks!

A Chicken Followed Me Home
Robin Page
ISBN: 9781481410281
Nonfiction Q&A style fact-book targeted at the very youngest readers/listeners. Very good info, well presented.

Big Fat Hen
Keith Baker
ISBN: 0152928693
The classic counting rhyme gets a facelift with a slightly-oversized bright collection of spreads.

Big Red Barn
Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Felicia Bond
ISBN: 9780060207489
A sweet and gentle look at a person-free day on the farm with animals and their babies.

New Picture Books: Big Bug, Henry Cole

Only a couple new titles in today, but really lovely ones.

Big Bug
Henry Cole (On Meadowview Street)
ISBN: 9781442498976
The viewpoint shifts each spread and alters the concept of big and little in relation to size and perspective.

I just got finished reading On Meadowview Street for my storytime today, and then this one appeared and made me love Cole all the more.  I can't wait to pair this with a few other homey farm or rural life portraits for a storytime.  Right now I'm thinking about Eugenie Fernandes' Busy Little Mouse and Ashley Wolff's Come With Me (about a boy and his puppy).  But back to Cole.  We start with a BIG BUG, a ladybug on a leaf, in beautiful closeup.  Then we zoom back to show the big leaf, and now our bug is little.  Another zoom gives us a big flower, and the leaf falls away to insignificance, then a dog makes the flower seem small, and so on until we reach the big country sky above, then scoot back down to a tree, then a barn, then a house, then a window, and back to our doggy friend again (with another teeny tiny friend barely visible on his nose).