Pet of a Pet

by Marsha Hayles, Scott Nash (Illustrator)

Each of the farm animals takes another as a pet and tries to impart to that animal his own characteristics or behavior, thus ending up with a crowing dog and a rooster that rolls in the mud.

Genres: Picture Books

32 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2001

About the author

Marsha Hayles is the author of many picture books and now a novel for young people. Her picture books frequently make use of rhyme and playful language, and range in topic from celebrating a day at the beach to suffering sore feet. Her novel Breathing Room is about girls suffering from tuberculosis at a sanatorium in 1940 and reflects her life-long interest in medicine, inspired, in part, by her childhood in Rochester, Minnesota, home to the world famous Mayo Clinic. Now she lives with her husband in the other Rochester—the one in New York.
A former English teacher with a Master’s Degree in English from Washington University, Marsha enjoys visiting schools to share her enthusiasm for reading and writing with children or to run writing and poetry workshops.

Reviews

[Darian - Books With A Chance]

Such a cute and fun story, my daughter loved it very much. Each pet has their own pet, which ends up being all the animals on the farm. They each try to teach their pet a trick, my daughter loved guessing what the tricks were before we flipped to the next page.

[Katie]

Cute. Nice repetition.

[Allison]

Everyone on the farm has a pet- the girl has a pet horse, the horse has a pet cow, the cow has a pet pig, the pig has a pet rooster, the rooster has a pet dog, and the dog has a pet cat, and the cat has a pet Girl!

[Michelle]

This was one of the cutest books we've gotten from the library so far. You go into a farm with Tabby, a girl and all of the animals there. Each animal has its own pet that it wants to teach a trick to until the whole circle comes back around to Tabby and her cat. It's a fun read.