Punk Farm

While Farmer Joe sleeps, the animals form a punk band and play a concert in the barn. Sheep is on guitar. Pig is on bass. Cow is on keyboards. Goat is on drums. Chicken sings. They are loud and they are joyful and nobody gave them permission. Krosoczka's picture book is the most purely P&P book for the youngest readers on the entire shelf — it is literally about animals forming a punk band after the authority figure goes to sleep and doing it for the joy of doing it. The argument could not be simpler or more complete: making music together, in the middle of the night, without asking anyone whether you're allowed to, because it makes you alive. The first word in the DoCR creative shelf for the youngest readers. Pair with Fantastic Mr Fox for a complete stage-1 argument that collective joy is its own justification.