Baby-O is a children's book by Nancy White Carlstrom, with art by Suçie Stevenson, published in 1994. It is available at the Internet Archive.
The story depends on a chain of sounds which are also the songs of the different family members, so that means it is a chain of sounds and a chain of people: chuka chuka go the chickens is baby's song, wusha wusha goes the washing is mama's song, tomatoma goes the toy truck is brother's song, kongada kongada goes the hoe is pappy's song, pika pika go the falling mangoes is sister's song, plesh plesh goes the basket-weaving is granny's song, dipa dipa goes the fishing net is papa's song. Then there is an accumulation of all the sounds, and that is the family's song. Next, putta putta clank clank, the family drives to the market, where we hear all the sounds again, and then again putta putta clank clank on the way back home.
The lovely story is set somewhere in the Caribbean (the description just says "West Indies"), and the setting can be seen in the beautiful artwork:
The book is accompanied by a song composed by the author, which you can find on the first page of the book; I looked for an audio recording at YouTube and could not find it. (This is not the traditional folk song / nursery rhyme What Will We Do with the Baby-O.)
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