Petook

The Rooster Who Met Jesus

On the same morning that Jesus rises from the dead, Petook the rooster crows in excitement as his baby chick breaks through its shell into a marvelous new life. Written by Caryll Houselander and illustrated by Tomie dePaola. 

Petook was listening. The world was listening. It was so quiet that Petook heard the chicks in the eggs tapping softly, knocking softly to get out, to come out of the dark into the light, out of silence into sound, out of death into life: bird and beast and seed in the earth and bud on the tree. Petook heard all that when the chicks tapped to get out...