A story about a rooster who clucks like a chicken because he does not know how to crow. He sets out to learn to crow and along the way meets other animals from whom he learns to make their sounds. Each time Bob learns a new sound it is repeated in order throughout the story making this a fun way for young children to participate in repeating each of the sounds. The illustrations are fun and warm. ( )

A story about a rooster who tries to learn to crow. Along the way he learns how to bark meow and others from those animals. ( )

There was once a rooster named Bob who did not know how to crow like a rooster does; instead he clucked like a chicken. One day a cat told him he should not cluck like chickens do, and since the cat cannot crow, she taught him how to meow. Bob decided to set out looking for a rooster to teach him how to crow, and along the way he met a dog who taught him to bark, frogs who taught him to ribbet, cows who taught him to moo, and finally a rooster named Fred who taught him to crow. Later that night he scared a fox away from his home by making all of the animal sounds he learned. ( )

Bob by Tracey Campbell Pearson

This picture book is a story about a rooster who does not know what sound he is supposed to say as a rooster. Bob the rooster is told by the cat that he is not making the correct sound and he needs to find out what he is supposed to say. Bob goes on a quest to find someone who knows what sound he is supposed to make. He learns many sounds by various animals and finally meets a rooster who teaches him to say cook-a-doodle-doo. The other sounds Bob learns come in handy when a fox comes to visit the chicken coop.

I found this story very humorous and enjoyable. A question that children might ask is where the rooster learned to make its sound. It is great to have literature that might give them an answer.

In the classroom, I would start the discussion on what sounds farm animals make. I would then ask the question, “Have you ever wondered how these animals learned to make their sound?” I then would ask the students where they think other animals learned their animal sounds.

Rooster and his adventures to learn to cock-a-doodle-do. ( )