"Cook-a-doodle-doo!" crows Big Brown Rooster.  "Let's get cooking!"  So Rooster and his eager assistants--Turtle, Iguana, and Potbellied Pig--set out to make the most wonderful, magnificent strawberry shortcake in the whole wide world.

• Winner of 2001 Texas Bluebonnet Award
• 2001 Florida Children's Book Honor Award
• NT Library 100 Books fpr Reading and Sharing
• American Bookseller's Association "Pick of the Lists"
• Children's Book of the Month Club Main Selection
• Nest Literary Classics
• nominated for several state book awards including California, Nebraska, Colorado, Georgia, Arkansas, North Carolina, Indiana, Missouri, Washington, Wyoming, and Tennessee

* "Part careful recipe, part wild farce this gloriously illustrated picture book bring the farmyard into the kitchen with parody and puns and nonsense slapstick that kids will love."

                            -- Booklist
                                         *(starred review)

* "A boisterous romp!"

                            -- Publishers Weekly
                                         *(starred review)