“Before the farmer’s day is done,
she does her chores, one by one.
She milks the cow, counts the sheep,
sings the piglets off to sleep.“
NB: In North America you spell it pAjamas with an ‘a’, not pYjamas with a ‘y’ but don’t worry, we have all bases covered with your country’s edition!
“Jumbled hijinks that will inspire chuckles galore.”
Kirkus Reviews, May 2026.
The farmer needs her favourite pyjamas to sleep well after a hard day’s work. But now her pyjamas are gone. And without a good night’s sleep, the farmer’s evening routine becomes so muddled the animals band together to search for her pyjamas. But where could they be?
“(…) In rhyming lines, the story unfolds as the farmer goes through her day’s routines. Not only does this fun book give an idea of the farmer’s workload, it also displays a range of animals and has a mystery to solve. The ideas linking sheep with sleep will also be given some thought. Interest will be piqued amongst readers. With charming illustrations of a farm and its occupants, readers will be delighted looking at the array before them, searching along with the animals, for those pyjamas.”
ReadPlus Australia, July 2026
Strange fact: at the Auckland Writers Festival in 2026 they made a ‘book mattress’ of The Farmer’s Pyjamas. That’s a first for me!
