Quote Originally Posted by lph View Post
Hilarious thread

There's a Norwegian childrens book series (prob. originally Swedish, come to think of it) about an elderly gentleman Pettersen and his cat Findus, who live alone in the countryside with a lot of animals. The drawings are just gorgeous, detailed and very funny.

Anyway, one of the books is about how the rooster Jussi (named after the famous tenor Jussi Bjørling) comes to the farm, and drives them all insane with his crowing. They reason with him, and set rules - five minutes of crowing every hour on the hour, only in the morning etc - but all this just makes Jussi very very mopey, frustrated and unhappy.

SPOILER

He finally gives up and disappears during the night. The hens are left behind to sigh and mourn, and dream up heroic stories about him coming back someday

That's funny - it's been translated into German but I couldn't find it in English:
http://www.amazon.com/Findus-Hahn-Ko...695009&sr=8-16

What a great book! I love children's books...especially the illustrations. I may have to get a copy in German just to look at the pictures!