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Clyde is the new rooster at Sunrise Farm. But hes having trouble fitting in and replacing Larry - the beloved rooster whose wake-up calls were legendary. The cow, the gaggle of hens, and the sheep reminisce about Larry while poor Clyde fails to croon the farmyard awake with the same finesse. Clyde attempts to win over the farm by wearing an elaborate costume and putting on a show like Larry was known to do, but in the end, Clyde realizes that imitating Larry is not the way to succeed.. Awards. SELECTION 2016 - Cooperative Childrens Book Center ChoicesSELECTION 2016 - Bank Street College Best Childrens Book of the YearHONOR 2016 - Ezra Jack Keats Book Award



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Megan Dowd Lambert

Megan Dowd Lambert (www.megandowdlambert.com) , Senior Lecturer in Children's Literature at Simmons University, is the author of Reading Picture Books with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking About What They See (Charlesbridge 2015) , which introduces the Whole Book Approach to storytime that she developed in association with The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. She received a 2016 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor for her first picture book, A Crow of His Own (Charlesbridge 2015, illustrated by David Hyde Costello) . Her second title for young readers, Real Sisters Pretend (Tilbury House 2016, illustrated by Nicole Tadgell) , is an adoption story inspired by two of her daughters, and it was named a 2017 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People and a Must Read title by the 17th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards. The mother of seven children ages 1-22 in a multiracial, queer, adoptive, blended family, Megan writes and reviews for Kirkus and The Horn Book, and she is hard at work on new books for young readers, including the sequel to A Crow of His Own, a new picture book called A Kid of Their Own, illustrated by Jessica Lanan, which Charlesbridge will publish in February 2020.



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