“In the still of the night, just before dawn, slowly and silently…

…the meadow filled with rabbits.” writes Carrie Weston to which illustrator Richard Byrne draws a patchwork farm landscape panorama of the blues, purples, and lavenders of early morning. The page turn reveals the farm is now in hues of sunrise reds, yellows, and oranges. The next page turn changes from colors to the onomatopoeia of barnyard sounds: Cock-a-doodle-do, Moo! Neigh! Baa-baaaaaaaaaa! Oink! Oink! [page turn] Meow! Woof!! Chu-chu-brrr-chug, chug, chug! “The farm rang out with noises.” As Raggety-Taggle, the rabbit, ponders the title question of “What Noise Does a Rabbit Make?” a cat begins to stalk him. The the chase is on! The miaowing cat, followed by the barking dog, the mooing cows, the baaing sheep, the neighing horses, the oinking pigs, and the cock-a-doodle-doing rooster. “The angry farm blew the tractor horn, TOOT! and everybody… stopped. All, that is except for Raggety-Taggle, who quietly tacked up his tail… and ran… and ran… and ran… all the way home.” Later  in the blues, purples, oranges of evening  Raggety-Taggle “wondered just why anybody would want to make a noise at all.”