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"Chick leaves the boring coop in order to find his hero, Wonder Pug, and a little bit of excitement." --

The song of the rooster draws forth the universe and gives way to the dance of beings and objects as day draws its first brilliant breath. This book is so supremely simple that a baby can delight in it, and yet so complex that an adult reader can find joy in the poem and beautiful images over and over again. Jorge Lujan dreamed this myth and, when he wrote it, understood that the rooster is the poet of the day. Manuel Monroy dipped his pen in the...

Proud Rooster never listens to anyone's advice, until finally he gets into serious trouble.

On Halloween night, two rowdy young roosters encounter a "poultrygeist" in the barn.

When Rick the rooster sleeps through the sunrise, his clever friends give him just the thing to help.

While looking for someone to teach him how to crow, a rooster learns to sound like many different animals and finds that his new skills come in handy.

When the youngest rooster on the hill decides it is his duty to bring up the moon by crowing loudly each night, the people living nearby dream of rooster soup.

A clever rooster retrieves his diamond button from a thieving sultan.