- Friendly: Once upon a time, not long ago,
and not far away, there was a sunrise.
The sun came up over the pond and lit the sky,
and woke a songbird. [bird sings]
Hear the 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 weather vane.
It's a quiet day. [rooster crows]
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 barnyard.
They're awake, looking at the big boot,
and the big boot is awake.
Now look up, look 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.
[whimsical music]
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.
Now, look up.
I'll call Rusty.
Rusty?
Are you awake, Rusty?
- Oh, hi, Friendly, I'm awake.
I've been awake for hours, just got back.
- Oh, really?
Where have you been? - Over at the farm.
- Oh, we were on the farm. - Oh, you were?
- 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? - Listen.
[crows] - It was you.
We'd know that voice anywhere. - Oh, mm-hmm.
- You 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 for him. - You can try.
[Friendly whistles]
- Maybe he's asleep-- [Jerome whistles]
No, he's awake.
Hi, Jerome. - Hi, Friendly.
Hello, Rusty. - Hi, Jerome.
We thought maybe you were sleeping.
- Sleeping? - Mm-hmm.
- Oh, I was up before Rusty was this morning.
- You were? - Mm-hmm.
- Really? - Yes, I was over at the pond.
- We were at the pond... - You were?
- ...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.
[whistles like a bird]
- It was you.
We'd know that whistle anywhere.
- Sings like a bird. - Mm-hmm.
[Rusty laughs] 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.
- The whole farm wakes up with the sun.
- Yes, it does. - Yes.
- And that's early.
Shall we read that book? - What book?
- The book about the farm waking up.
- Is there a book about waking up the farm?
- Yes. - Oh!
- Remember the name of it, Rusty?
- Oh, I know the one.
Wake Up, Farm! - That's it.
- Get it. - Oh, I know where it is.
Down here somewhere.
- It's the one with the sunrise right on the cover.
- Rusty: Oh, yeah, here it is.
Here it is.
- Can I help? - Rusty: I'm pushing it up now.
- All right. - Here, got it?
Got ahold of it? - Friendly: Oh, it's a big book.
Wake Up, Farm!
There, you see? - Rusty: There.
- Oh, excuse me, Rusty. - That's all right.
- You see, Jerome, there's a sunrise right on the cover,
and there's a big barn. - Oh!
- Let me get over here
where everyone can see all the pictures.
- Jerome, this is the one that you help tell.
- I do? - Friendly: Yes!
- This is the one where you make believe
you're some of the animals and things.
- Friendly: Mm-hmm. - Well, fine.
That's fun for me.
- Friendly: Maybe you can help too, Rusty.
- Could I?
Oh, fine.
- Friendly: Can you see the pictures now?
- Jerome: A little bit higher.
There, that's fine.
- Friendly: Wake Up, Farm! by Alvin Tresselt,
with pictures by Roger Duvoisin.
It's a Lothrop, Lee, and Shepard Company book.
"All through the night while 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 post."
Like Rusty.
"'Cock-a-doodle-doo!' he 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 colt 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, Jerome?
- Well... [quacks]
- Friendly: Can you sound like a duck too, Rusty?
- Well, maybe. [quacks]
- Friendly: "Wake up, farm!
"Grunt, grunt.
"The roly-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.
"Honk, honk, honk!
"'Wake up, farm!'
"Then, high in the apple tree, the turkey wakes up too.
"He ruffles his feathers and calls,
"'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."
Ears like yours, Jerome. - Jerome: Like that, mm-hmm.
- Friendly: "Now the sheep and baby lambs come out
of the sheepfold to eat the wet, shiny grass."
Jerome, you can sound like a sheep.
- I think so.
Baa, baa, baa.
There. - Friendly: Rusty?
- Well, I'll probably sound more like a lamb.
Baa, baa, baa, baa, baa, baa.
- Friendly: Just like a baby lamb.
"Wake up, farm!
"And the strutting pigeons fly out of the dovecote
"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
"in his bowl.
"'Bow wow, wake up, farm!'
"The warm, furry rabbit wakes up in the rabbit hutch.
He twitches his wiggly nose as he eats a carrot for breakfast."
What are these things?
[buzzes] Beehives.
"The buzzy bees come out of their hives
and buzz around the pink clover."
Jerome?
Be a bee. - All right.
[buzzes]
Got 'em. - Friendly: Right.
"The cows are awake and waiting by the pasture gate.
[moos] "'Moo,' they say.
It's time for milking."
Does that sound like a cow, Jerome?
- Jerome: Pretty much, Friendly.
- 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 farmhouse 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 has begun.
Good morning."
There.
- And everybody's up. - Friendly: Everybody's up.
- Oh, that was nice, Friendly. - Mm-hmm.
- Well. - First?
- First, the birds.
- First, the songbirds woke up. - Then the rooster.
The rooster woke up everything else.
- The rooster woke up everything else.
What do you say when you wake up everyone, Rusty?
- Well-- - Show us.
This is what a rooster says to wake up everyone.
- I usually say, "Hi, come on, get up everybody!
"Up, come on, up, up!
Let's get up, come on!" - Rusty, Rusty?
- What? - Is that what you say?
- Well, that's what I say when I wake up people
in the morning. - Oh, but what do you say
to wake up the animals?
- Oh, something like... [crows]
- Friendly: That's what we heard.
Don't you ever say cock-a-doodle-doo?
- Oh, no.
Only book roosters say cock-a-doodle-doo.
- Mm-hmm. - Mm-hmm.
- And they wake up book animals. - That's right.
- Different things wake up different people.
- For roosters and noises and...
- Noises in the morning, traffic noises.
- Mm-hmm. - And motorcycles.
- Motorcycles. - And trucks.
- Trucks and the milkman rattling bottles.
- Milkman, that's right.
- What else wakes people up?
- Well, bells.
- Bells wake people up.
What kind of bells? - Uh...
- Steeple bells. - Steeple 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, are you sleeping?
- Oh, yes. - Remember that?
- It's a round, isn't it? - It's a round.
- 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 Jerome can be second.
And I can be third.
- You want to be last?
- Uh-huh, I want to be last.
- Would you get the giant's pipe, please?
- I'll get the giant's pipe.
- Then we'll know what note to start on.
- That'll be fun, Friendly.
- What's the matter, Rusty?
Can't you find it? - Rusty: Oh, I'll be right up.
I'm just fixing something down here.
- What do you mean?
- Rusty: Nothing, just-- Never mind.
- What is he doing down there? - Rusty: Here it is.
There.
All right, you ready now? - I'm ready.
- You're third, you're second, I'm first.
- What were you doing down there?
[Friendly plays note and hums]
- Never mind.
Something for the song.
[ascending notes] [Friendly hums]
? Are you sleeping, are you sleeping? ?
? Brother John ? ? Are you sleeping? ?
? Are you sleeping? ?
? Brother John ? ? Brother John ?
? Ding dong ding ? ? Morning bells are ringing ?
? Ding dong ding ?
? Ding dong ding, ding dong... ?
- What?
[alarm clock rings]
- Rusty: There, there, there it is.
[alarm clock rings]
- An alarm clock!
How do you turn it off? - Friendly, turn it off.
There's a button in the back there somewhere.
Turn it off.
Turn it off, there.
[laughs] That was my last ding dong.
- That is what you were doing down in the--
- It certainly surprised me.
- He set the alarm clock to go off to finish the song.
- That's right. - Because--
- That's what I was doing down in the book bag.
- An alarm clock is a morning bell, isn't it?
- That's right, it's a morning bell.
- Mm-hmm. - Mm-hmm.
- It rings-- - Wakes lots of people up
in the morning. - Rings early in the morning.
But it's late now, isn't it?
- It is? - Oh, yes.
- Oh, time goes fast in the castle.
- Outside, the moon is coming up.
And it's time for this. - Well.
[gentle recorder music]
[yawns] I do feel tired.
[yawns]
- Friendly: Good night, Rusty.
Good night, Jerome. - Good night, Friendly.
- Rusty: Good night. - Friendly: It is late.
This little chair will be waiting for one of you.
And the rocking chair for another who likes to rock,
and the big arm chair for two more to curl up in
when you come again to our castle.
Good night.
[gentle music]