Spring has sprung, my fine friends!

Come along! Grab an arm.

Let me take you to tour
the Greenbean family’s farm!

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Worth, Bonnie, author. | Ruiz, Aristides, illustrator. | Mathieu, Joe, illustrator.
Title: Cows can moo! Can you? : All about farms / by Bonnie Worth ;
by Bonnie Worth
illustrated by Aristides Ruiz and Joe Mathieu.
Other titles: All about farms | Cat in the Hat’s learning library.
Description: First edition. | New York : Random House, 2018. | Series: The Cat in the Hat’s learning
illustrated by Aristides Ruiz and Joe Mathieu
library | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017016800 | ISBN 978-0-399-55524-4 (trade) | ISBN 978-0-399-55525-1 (lib. bdg.)
Subjects: LCSH: Farms—Juvenile literature. The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library®
Classification: LCC S519 .W67 2018 | DDC 630—dc23

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Spring has sprung, my fine friends!
Come along! Grab an arm.
Let me take you to tour
the Greenbean family’s farm!
The sun’s barely up— He stretches his neck
and what do you know? and says cock-a-doodle-doo!
The house lights are on Does that sound like the way
with the rooster’s first crow. your day begins, too?
In the dairy parlor, The machines go chuff-chuff,
the younger Greenbeans and the cows go moo-moo.
are connecting the cows They clean udders beforehand
to the milking machines. and when they are through.
Feeding the chickens Nothing moves like a chicken
is not at all hard. or talks like one talks.
Just spread grains and seeds Its claws go scritch-scritch,
all over their yard. and its beak pawk-pawk-pawks!
In the sheepfold, Mr. Greenbean
shears the sheep’s belly fleece,
then he shaves off the rest
Most sheep sound alike—
in one big neat piece.
the lamb, ram, and ewe.
They all go baaaa-baaaa!
Mr. Greenbean tries
and have woolly fleece, too.
to be gentle and quick,
to never pinch skin
or to hurt or to nick.
Mrs. Greenbean places . . . cards out the knots.
the wool on a table This task takes some time
and pulls out the tags— ’cause knots—there are lots!
as much as she’s able.

The tags are the wool

from the belly and back,
too dirty to use
so they’re tossed in a sack.
Then she spins the wool
into a thick yarn—and that’s
Next, she washes and dries it what she uses to knit
and . . . Greenbean mittens and hats.
In the truck garden’s Dean’s hoe digs for weeds
tidy vegetable beds and it scratch-scratch-scratches.
are lettuce and kale (The scarecrow is dressed in
with tiny green heads. an outfit that matches.)

Underground, carrots sprout.

They are actually roots.
Aboveground, the pole beans
put out their first shoots.
With tractor and tiller,
Mr. Greenbean needs
to ready the soil
for the planting of seeds.

Then Greenbean hitches up

the manure spreader
to fertilize the soil—
make it richer and better.
Suddenly, there comes
a loud, banging crunch!
A bent tractor axle
would be my best hunch.

But Mr. Greenbean,

being smarter than smart,
calls the tractor shop
to get a new part.
With axle in place,
all shiny and new,
there is one more thing
Mr. Greenbean must do.

He’ll hook up the planter

because, as he’ll show,
it will spit out the seeds
in a nice, even row.

There goes the planter—

spit-spit-spit-spit!
It does the job quick
and is neat about it.
We leave and come back The hay rake swish-swishes.
on a dry summer’s day, It goes to and fro
when it’s time for the Greenbeans to gather the hay
to bring in the hay. into piles, like so.

The sickle mower cuts This long pile of hay—

down the field of tall hay. as all good farmers know—
Then it’s left out to dry goes by a name.
for at least one more day. It is called a windrow.
Here comes the baler
with a loud, rumbling roar,
packing hay into bales
that are easy to store.

Vroom-vroom goes the skid steer

as sister and brother
stack up the bales
one on top of the other.
Everything’s green This means the Greenbeans
and growing quite well, must now irrigate.
till midsummer comes They soak the dry soil
and brings a dry spell. after dark, when it’s late.

Like a big garden sprinkler,

the irrigator whips round
and waters the crops
with a whap-whapping sound.
Come fall, we return The auger picks up
for the harvest and reaping, the kernels, like so,
a date we have all and shoots them off into
looked forward to keeping. the tall grain silo.

The combine does two The kernels rain down

of the harvesting jobs. with a rat-a-tat-tat!
It cuts down corn stalks They fill up the silo
and cuts kernels off cobs. in no time—like that!
 Let’s check out the garden. Let’s load up the truck.
The time—how it’s flown! We must not delay,
See how the veggies for—didn’t you know?—
have ripened and grown?

Dug out of the earth

or plucked from the vine,
the Greenbeans’ garden harvest
was never so fine!
IT IS GREEN MARKET DAY!
As market day ends, Their noses sniff-sniff.
the fond memories linger. Smells GREAT! What is that?
The Greenbeans are too tired A farm-fresh meal
to lift even a finger. from—
the Cat in the Hat!
 GLOSSARY FOR FURTHER READING

Auger: A screw-shaped tool in a long metal tube used A Kid’s Guide to Keeping Chickens by Melissa
to move grain from the ground up to the top of a silo Caughey (Storey Publishing). This excellent guide
or grain bin. to raising chickens (winner of the AAAS/Subaru
SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books) is
Axle: A rod that passes through a wheel or group of
perfect for families looking to start their own flock.
wheels.
For ages 8 and up.
Dairy parlor: The part of a dairy barn where the
cows are milked by machine. Milk: From Cow to Carton by Aliki (HarperCollins,
Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Book®). A guided tour of
Irrigate: To supply water to land or crops. all the steps involved in making milk—from green
grass to cow to the dairy to your refrigerator! (Also
Kernel: The seed and hard cover from an ear of corn
check out Aliki’s Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the
or a shaft of wheat.
Indians in the same series.) For ages 4 to 8.
Linger: To stay, perhaps longer than necessary,
because you don’t want something to end. Total Tractor! (DK Children). Illustrated
throughout with clear, detailed photographs, this
Manure: Animal dung used for enriching soil. overview of tractors—from vintage classics to
Sickle mower: A machine that cuts down tall grass modern machines—can be enjoyed by the whole
or grain. family. For ages 7 to 10.

Spell: An unspecific period of time. A Year at Maple Hill Farm and Our Animal
Friends at Maple Hill Farm by Alice and Martin
Truck garden: A field where vegetables are grown Provensen (Aladdin). Written and illustrated by a
for market. Caldecott Medal–winning husband-and-wife team,
these two charming picture books about life on a
New England farm are a delight. For ages 3 to 8.
The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library®
Can You See a Chimpanzee?
Clam-I-Am!
Cows Can Moo! Can You?
Fine Feathered Friends
A Great Day for Pup
Hark! A Shark!
High? Low? Where Did It Go?
Hurray for Today!
I Can Name 50 Trees Today!
Ice Is Nice!
If I Ran the Dog Show
If I Ran the Horse Show
If I Ran the Rain Forest
Inside Your Outside!
Is a Camel a Mammal?
Miles and Miles of Reptiles
My, Oh My—a Butterfly!
Oh Say Can You Say DI-NO-SAUR?
Oh Say Can You Say What’s the Weather Today?
Oh Say Can You Seed?
Oh, the Pets You Can Get!
Oh, the Things They Invented!
Oh, the Things You Can Do That Are Good for You!
On Beyond Bugs!
Once upon a Mastodon
One Cent, Two Cents, Old Cent, New Cent
One Vote, Two Votes, I Vote, You Vote
Out of Sight Till Tonight!
Safari, So Good!
There’s a Map on My Lap!
There’s No Place Like Space!
A Whale of a Tale!
What Cat Is That?
Who Hatches the Egg?
Why Oh Why Are Deserts Dry?
Wish for a Fish
Would You Rather Be a Pollywog?
 There is a big gap between “concept” books written
for preschoolers and nonfiction that requires fluent
reading skills. The Cat in the Hat’s Learning
Library® books introduce beginning readers to
important basic concepts about the world we live in.
They provide the critical foundations upon which
complex facts and ideas can eventually be built.
In addition, The Cat in the Hat’s Learning
Library® shows young readers that books can be
entertaining and educational at the same time.
This is a wonderful series!
—Barbara Kiefer, Ph.D.,
Charlotte S. Huck Professor
of Children’s Literature,
The Ohio State University

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