While the farmer is working diligently in the fields, the animals participate in fun, atypical activities (tubing down the creek, picnicking, visiting an amusement park, water skiing etc).
The only words are "the farmer's away", various animal sounds, the farmer singing ( oh, dee doh) and yawning and "shhh".
The author carefully coordinated the words with the order the animals are in positioned in the picture.
To fully appreciate this book, readers must study the illustrations. The illustrations tell more of the story than the words.
I loved the title page- a bird's eye view of the complete setting.
Strategy: inferring
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