Common Sense Media Review
By Kate Pavao
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Cute interactive book about fuzzy and furry farm animals.
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Why Age 2+?
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What's the Story?
Through rhyming poetry, this book introduces babies and kids to the animals that live on the farm, including the families they live in and the sounds they make. Pages have flaps kids can lift, tabs to push and pull -- and even a rubber ducky to squeeze.
Is It Any Good?
The simple poetry is enjoyable enough, but it's really the images that babies and kids will want to see over and over again. There are some sweet baby animal pictures -- and some silly ones, too, like a pig giving a piggy-back ride to a lamb, goat, chicken, and more. Preschoolers will like spotting the mouse on every page.
This certainly is a book that encourages interaction. Not only will kids enjoy petting the horse's mane or pushing the tab to watch a chicken eat, but families who read this book together can also have fun picking out their favorite animals and even making their favorite barnyard sounds!
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about family members' own favorite animals. Do you prefer the pig wallowing in mud, the fuzzy baby chicks, or the long-legged baby foals?
Encourage your preschoolers to find the mouse on every page. Do you see him hanging from the horse's hair or sitting by the cow's milk pail? Parents could ask preschool kids to count the number of horns, beaks, hooves, etc.
Book Details
- Author :
- Illustrator : Brian Stanton
- Genre : Animals
- Book type : Non-Fiction
- Publisher : Simon & Schuster
- Publication date : August 30, 2011
- Publisher's recommended age(s) : 2 - 2
- Number of pages : 18
- Last updated : March 4, 2020
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