The only indication the tired farmer gets that something unusual has happened is the last-minute appearance of a dress-wearing mouse crying “eek!” as she rushes past. The animals revel in anthropomorphic pleasures such as having a picnic, riding a roller coaster, and dressing up and dancing as the sun goes down, only to make a mad dash for the pasture when the farmer returns. The storyline is simple and easy to follow, and the text (“Neigh neigh baa baa quack quack tweet/arf oink ree ree cluck cluck cheep!” cry the critters as the farmer heads off) rejoices in its own verbal musicality. Each sound correlates to a particular animal (the mama pig cries “oink” while the piglets cry “ree”) a picture “glossary” depicting each animal next to its sound appears on the book’s endpages for extra support. The title is all the verbal explanation one gets in this story of farm animals partying down, their rhyming exclamations the only text, after the farmer heads off to the fields on his tractor.
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