Wrong Time Rooster

When Ronnie the Rooster arrives at the farm, Farmer Tony warns all the animals that they won’t be sleeping in late anymore, now that Ronnie is here to wake them up at dawn. Yet, Ronnie keeps cock-a-doodle-doo-ing at the wrong time – in the afternoon, at night, and any time that isn’t dawn! He’s the Wrong Time Rooster! 

When Farmer Tony asks Ronnie what’s wrong, Ronnie explains that he can’t tell the time, so Farmer Tony makes a clock out of the crate he arrived in and teaches Ronnie. Finally, Ronnie can cock-a-doodle-doo on time – mostly! 

This lovely, sweet and funny book is both an amusing animal story and a useful guide to telling the time. When Farmer Tony and the rest of the animals teach Ronnie to tell the time, author-illustrator Michael Parkin lays out a nice double page spread featuring labelled clocks that would be a nice starting place to look at learning to tell the time together. 

Cute, fun and helpful.