Once upon a time, not long ago, and not far away, there was a sunrise.
The sun came up over the pond, and looked the sky, and woke a songbird.
There's a bird in the tree, and the bird woke the world.
Not the whole world, but the world around it.
The farm is awake.
There's the dog lying on the front porch, and the dog is awake.
The duck, drinking at the pump under the windmill, the duck is awake.
It's a quiet day, no wind to turn the windmill.
No wind to swing the weathering. It's a quiet day.
Oh, listen, and look, there's the rooster sitting on the fence post.
Waking up the farm animals, the horse in the barn, and the cows in the barn yard.
They're awake, looking at the big boot, and the big boot is awake.
Now look up, but way up.
The sun woke the songbird, the songbird woke the rooster,
and the rooster woke the farm.
That's what roosters do best.
Let's go to the castle. I'll hurry over first, and go in the back door
so that I can let the drawbridge down and open the big front doors for you.
Are you ready? Here's my castle.
Here we are inside, and here's one little chair for one of you,
and a bigger chair for two more to curl up in,
and a rocking chair for someone who'd like to rock.
No. Look up. I'll call Rusty.
Rusty? Rusty? Are you awake, Rusty?
Oh, my friendly, I'm awake. I have a boy for all of this stuff back.
Oh, really? Where have you been?
I've heard farms. Oh, we were on the farm.
We heard that little rooster with the loud voice.
Oh, you didn't hear a little rooster. You heard me, friendly.
We heard you? Mm-hmm. That was me over there.
Really?
It was you. We'd know that voice anywhere.
Oh, mm-hmm.
To woke up all the farm animals.
Oh, I can help wake up all the animals.
Did you wake Jerome?
Well, I don't think so. Jerome is pretty sleepy, you know.
I don't know if he's even awake.
Oh, we'll see. I'll whistle, farmer.
Thank you, Guy.
Maybe he's asleep.
No. He's awake.
Hi, Jerome.
Hi, friendly.
Oh, Rusty.
Hi, Jerome.
We thought maybe you were sleeping.
Sleeping?
I was up before Rusty was.
You were?
Mm-hmm.
Really?
Yes, I was over at the pond.
We were at the pond watching the sunrise.
So was I.
We heard a little songbird singing.
Oh, no.
That was me, friendly.
That was you.
I was singing like a bird.
Really?
Like this.
It was you.
We'd know that whistle anywhere.
Singed like a bird.
Oh.
And you helped wake up the world.
Well, I like to help wake up things when I get up early in the morning.
Everything on the farm wakes up early.
Yes.
And that's early.
So we read that book.
What book?
The book about the farm waking up.
Is there a book about waking up a farm?
Yes.
Oh.
Remember the name of the Rusty?
Oh, one.
Wake up farm.
That's it.
Oh, I know where it is.
Down here somewhere.
It's the one with the sunrise right on the cover.
Oh, yeah.
Here it is.
Can I help?
I'm pushing it off.
All right.
Here.
Got it?
A hole in it?
Oh, it's a big book.
Wake up farm.
There.
You see?
Here.
Oh, excuse me right there.
All right.
You see, Jerome, there's a sunrise right on the cover.
And there's a big barn.
Let me get over here where everyone can see all the pictures.
This is the one that you help help.
I do?
Yes.
This is the one where you may believe you're some of the animals and things.
Well, fine.
That's fun for me.
Maybe you can help too, Rusty.
Could I?
Oh, fine.
Can you see the pictures now?
A little bit to hire.
There.
That's fine.
Wake up farm by Alvin Tresselt with pictures by Roger Duwaza.
It's a low-through lead and shepherd company book.
All through the night where the bright stars shine in the sky, everything sleeps.
Then the songbirds wake up and begin to sing their morning songs.
Wake up farm and the big fat rooster hears them and he hops up on the fence boat like Rusty.
Caca do the lewy crows.
Wake up farm.
Cluck, cluck, cluck.
The chickens wake up.
They hop down on the ground and start to eat corn.
The horse wakes up in her stall and licks her baby coat behind the ears.
The white ducks waddle out of the bushes.
They wiggle their tails and jump into the brook for a swim.
What do they say?
They're all wild.
Whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, whack.
Can you sound like a duck too, Rusty?
Whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, whack, whack.
Wake up farm.
They're on front.
The rolly-poly pigs wake up and root about their pen looking for breakfast.
They're big.
They like to eat.
The gray goose sticks her long neck out of her nest in the grass and looks around.
Whack, whack, whack, whack.
Wake up farm.
Then high in the apple tree, the turkey wakes up too.
The ruffles his feathers and calls a gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble.
Wake up farm.
The donkey hears all the noise and opens his big brown eyes.
He looks very sleepy as he wiggles his long, soft ears.
He hears like ears, Jerome.
Now the sheep and baby lambs come out of the sheep pole to eat the wet, shiny grass.
Jerome, you can sound like a sheep.
I think so.
Ah, ah, ah, ah.
There.
Rusty?
Well, I'll find some like a lamb.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
This is like a baby lamb.
Wake up farm.
And the strutting pigeons fly out of the dove coat and circle over the big red barn.
Coo, coo, wake up farm.
With a big stretch, the tabby cat wakes up and she purrs as she gives her kittens their morning bath.
And here's the dog wide awake and barking at a noisy chipmunk.
And his bow, bow, bow, aw, wake up farm.
The warm, furry rabbit wakes up in the rabbit hut.
He twitches his wiggly nose as he eats a carrot for breakfast.
What are these things?
Beehives, the buzzy bees come out of their hives and buzz their eyes.
And buzz their eye on the big clover.
Your own?
Be a bee.
All right?
Mmm.
Adam.
Right.
The cows are awake and waiting by the pasture gate.
Mmm.
They say it's time for milking.
And that sounds like a cow's room.
Pretty much friendly.
And here comes the farmer with his shiny milk pail just as the sun comes over the hill.
And at last, a little boy in the big farm off wakes up and stretches.
The birds are singing and the animals are calling.
The bright morning sun is shining in the window and mother calls from the kitchen breakfast.
And another day is begun.
Good morning.
There.
And everybody's up.
Everybody's up.
Oh, that was nice, friendly.
Mmm.
Wow.
First?
The birds.
First.
The song birds woke up.
Then the rooster...
The rooster woke up everything else.
What do you say when you wake up everyone resty?
Well...
Sure.
This is what a rooster just says to wake up everyone.
How do you say, all right, come on.
Get up everybody.
Up.
Get up.
Roxy.
Is that what you say?
Oh, but what do you say to wake up the animals?
Oh, something like...
That's what we heard.
Don't you ever say cockadoodle-doo?
Oh, no.
Only book roosters say cockadoodle-doo.
And they wake up book animals.
Different things wake up different people.
For roosters and noises and...
Noises in the morning traffic noises.
And motorcycles.
And trucks.
Trucks and the milkman rattling bottles.
That's right.
What else wakes people up?
Well, bells.
Bells.
What kind of bells?
People bells.
And there are morning bells.
Morning bells.
Like the morning bells in the song.
That's right.
In the song about Brother John.
Are you sleeping?
Oh, yeah.
Remember that?
Around, isn't it?
It's around.
Could we sing that friendly?
We could all three sing it.
Could we?
Yes.
Oh.
Fine.
Who's first?
Well, why don't you be first friendly?
I'll be first.
And...
And you're only going to be second.
I can be third.
You want to be last?
Well, I want to be last.
Would you get the giant fight, please?
I don't know what to do.
All right.
That'll be fun, friendly.
What's the matter?
You can't do it.
Well, I'll be right up.
I'm just fixing something down here.
What do you mean?
Nothing.
Never mind.
What is he doing down there?
Here it is.
There.
All right.
You ready now?
I'm ready.
You're third.
You're second.
I'm third.
You're doing down there.
Oh, boy.
Help me for the song.
Are you sleeping?
Dang, dang, dang.
Dang, dang, dang, dang, dang.
Dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang, dang.
What?
Here, here.
Here it is.
An alarm truck.
Honey, turn it off.
turn it off then the buck in the back or somewhere turn it off
turn it off there oh oh that was my last ding dong
that is what you were doing down on them
since certainly surprised me it set the alarm clock to go off to finish the
song that's right because it was doing it on the book
there an alarm clock is a morning bell isn't it?
that's right it's a morning bell
it brings lots of people up in the morning
it brings early in the morning but it's late now isn't it?
It is? Oh, yes. Oh, time goes past the castle.
Outside the moon is coming up.
And it's time for this. Well.
Hmm. I don't feel tired.
Hmm.
Good night, Rusty.
Good night, Gerald. Good night, friendly.
Good night.
It is late.
This little chair will be waiting for one of you.
The rocking chair for another who likes to rock
and the big arm chair for two more to curl up
and when you come again to our castle.
Good night. Good night.
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