Tafuri. This Is the Farmer

This Is the Farmer is a children's book by Nancy Tafuri, with art by the author, published in 1994. It is available at the Internet Archive.

Here is a YouTube read-along:

This is a great ultra-simple chain tale: no rhymes, not cumulative, just a simple step by step by step, with lovely art, too! It starts with the farmer who kisses his wife... who pats the dog, who scratches the flea, that lands on the cat, and on it goes!

Not much happens, but it's very sweet, and a great example of how to build a chain from simple materials. The ending is not much of an ending: the farmer goes to milk the cow. But just imagine would chain could start from milking a cow!