Award-winning author/illustrator Mark Teague creates a farmwith a sense of humor. Readers will laugh out loud when CousinEdward arrives from the city to help out on the farm. The cows,pigs, and sheep have been waiting for Cousin Edward to visitHawthorne Farm. The fun is never ending as Edward tries his best tomilk the cows, tend the sheep, feed the pigs, plant the garden, andmuch more. It is truly a day that Edward will never forget!
Join Edward as he pitches in with chores on his first visit toHawthorne Farm - where the pigs play practical jokes, the sheepbrush their teeth before heading out to graze, and the mice churntheir own butter.

It's a day Edward will never forget - a funny day on a funnyfarm.

From Publishers Weekly
When Edward, a city-slicker dog, arrives at his canine relatives'farm for a visit, Teague provides the perfect setup for thisgoofily sweet fish-out-of-water tale. As fans familiar with theantics of Teague's other pooch—Ike from the Dear Mrs. LaRuebooks—might expect, the narrative nature of the crisp oilillustrations reveals a much more entertaining version of the storythan does the straightforward text. The line, In the woods, Edwardhelps make maple syrup, accompanies a spread showing Edwardstumbling through a clearing with his paw stuck in a bucket. Andwhen Edward and Judy go outside to tend the sheep, Edward is shownpetrified, having somehow hooked the leg of one unhappy lookingram. Young readers will find plenty to revisit in the humorousbucolic scenes of barnyard creatures at work and play. And thoughEdward never quite gets the hang of farm chores, kids will takeheart that his bemused hosts are ever-tolerant of his botchedefforts. Ages 4–8. (Apr.)
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From Booklist
This book isn’t all that ha-ha funny, but it’s every other kind offunny: weird, satirical, and surreal.?Using simple declarativesentences (“Judy helps Edward feed the pigs”), Teague tells ofEdward, a dog visiting his aunt and uncle in the country. We knowEdward is from the city because he wears a little suit and bowtie,and we know from that suit and bowtie that he’s going to get realmessy real fast.?Edward falls into the pigpen, gets chased bychickens, and battles sheep, all of which play amusing counterpartto Teague’s text, which describes what Edward is supposed to bedoing. The paintings are absurd still lifes centered aroundEdward’s prim, glassy-eyed, almost Stan Laurel–like mug; the factthat cows are sometimes playing tetherball in the backgroundjust?seems?par for the course. There is a confidence to Teague’sartwork that will win over almost any reader—dogs do dance withpigs while their dog-families play fiddle and cello. We’ve justnever noticed it before. Preschool-Kindergarten. --DanielKraus