Central Kansas Library System

"Pete the cat learns the sounds of the different farm animals in this twist on the classic song"--

A shy and quiet boy wanders his new home town, listening to the birds, until he meets a fellow bird lover and friend.

When George's mother tells her son to bark, he meows. She patiently explains that "Cats go meow. Dogs go arf. Now, bark, George." But he quacks! Then oinks. Then moos. Becoming less patient and more exasperated, George's mom takes him to the vet, who reaches deep down inside the errant pup, and, much to everyone's surprise, pulls out a cat! Then a duck, a pig, and finally a cow. George is cured, and barks at last! On the way home, his proud mother...

A very quiet cricket who wants to rub his wings together and make a sound as do so many other animals finally achieves his wish. The cricket's sound is reproduced at the end of the book.

As one animal sits on another in an accumulating progression, the reader learns the sounds each animal makes.

Depicts the sounds that animals make in the woods, by the pond, in the jungle, at the farm, and in the mountains.

After Bo and Pal, his silent new puppy, go for a walk and hear the various sounds of animals and objects around them, Pal finally speaks up.

In a barnyard, a pig whispers into a rooster's ear, starting a game of "telephone" that goes horribly awry.

As Little Ghost searches the night for her lost "boo," her animal friends offer to lend their sounds but she will need the reader's help to find her special sound.

Each of the animals inhabiting the barn makes sounds that distinguish it from the others.