Ocean State Libraries

Serious silliness for all ages. Artist Sandra Boynton is back and better than ever with completely redrawn versions of her multi-million selling board books. These whimsical and hilarious books, featuring nontraditional texts and her famous animal characters, have been printed on thick board pages, and are sure to educate and entertain children of all ages.

"One day a tiny cricket is born. He meets a big cricket who chirps his welcome. The tiny cricket tries to respond, but he cannot make a sound. And so the cricket makes his way in the world, meeting one insect after another who greets him with a cheery hello."--Page 4 of cover.

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

All the farm animals are where they should be, clucking and mucking, mewing and cooing, except for the missing goose.

While a young girl waits for the delivery of a hot pizza, she provides the appropriate animal sounds for a variety of pretend animal pizza deliverers.

"This lively split-page-format book shows how animals say hello with different sounds." --

"Illustrations and simple text describe the ways various animals communicate, such as "Owls hoot," "Pigs squeal," and "Bees buzz.""--

"Describes the types of sounds made by different animals." --

Farmer Jones's snores set off a series of hooting, oinking, neighing, and barking, until the rooster's cock-a-doodle-doo wakes him up.

Follows a noisy parade of animals on their way to the forest. Onboard pages.