Wake Up, Henry Rooster!

Ellie Contursi is a children’s librarian at the London Public Library.

Henry Rooster is loves to party, stay up late, and sleep in the next
morning. When his father leaves for the Roosters’ Union Convention, it
is up to Henry to wake the farm each morning at the crack of dawn. This
daunting task does not hinder Henry’s social life, however. He still
plays cards with the goats, frolics with the sheep, and dances with the
cows. But after each night of fun he gets to bed later and later, barely
dragging himself out of bed to wake the farm in time. Finally, his late
nights take their toll and one morning, Henry is very late waking
everyone up. All the animals are thoroughly annoyed. Try as he might,
Henry cannot get anyone else to take on his wake-up job, so he seeks out
a wise old goat, from whom he gets an idea. The next night Henry whoops
it up like never before, but this time he stays up until dawn, climbs
the barn roof, and Cock-a-doodle-doos with no abandon. Success at last.
Everyone is wide awake and Henry can sleep all day.

Young readers will delight in this book. Using bright, bold colours,
award-winning illustrator Sean Cassidy brings Henry’s party-time
character to life, making him irresistible and capturing the rooster’s
lifestyle to a T. Margriet Ruurs’s humorous text is equally
entertaining. Highly recommended.