Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
Six baby farm animals demonstrate the sounds they can make, accompanied by Italian artist Dogi's luxuriantly detailed images of the animals and the adult members of their species. "Chick cheeps at chickens pecking in the coop," writes Riggs as Dogi shows a delicately fuzzy yellow chicken eyeing a corn kernel, while a golden-feathered rooster crowds the foreground, his coxcomb agleam. Ducks, horses, sheep, and other animals make appearances, the stripped-down sentences giving way to an open-ended conclusion: "What do you say on the farm?" Simultaneously available: Time to Build. Ages 2-up. (Apr.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Review by School Library Journal Review
Baby/Toddler-These striking titles feature distinguished artwork, destined to appeal to curious young minds. On the Farm gives a familiar subject renewed life through Dogi's wonderfully expressive animal faces rendered in liquid acrylics with airbrushing. Calves and cows, chickens and chicks, foals and horses, and other adult-baby creature pairings are accompanied by one simple sentence per page and the onomatopoeic word for each. In Time to Build, simple sentences explain what a tape measure, saw, wrench, drill, screwdriver, and hammer do, while carefully detailed pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations depict a variety of people using the tools. On the final spread, readers see their results: a tree house. Solid selections. © Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
Cheerful yet realistic-looking farm animals introduce toddlers to farm-animal sounds and environs. Each double-page spread highlights one type of animal and its babycalf and cows, chick and chickens, duckling and ducks, foal and horses, lamb and sheep, and piglet and pigs. The relevant verb ("moos," "quacks," "snorts") is highlighted in colored type in each sentence, and then the onomatopoeic sound is reproduced as "dialogue." The animals are idealized depictions of the real thing, not anthropomorphic cartoons. The really fat pigs loll in the mud, and the teats are clearly visible on the sow's belly. A side view of a Holstein cow shows her udders. The pose of the horse is awkward; the foal looks like it is on its mother's back. The pure white duck is just plain prettynot at all like those found in most barnyards. Although the text mentions where each animal lives, there is no picture of a chicken coop or stable. But these are quibbles. With just enough information for the board-book audience, young toddlers will soon be mooing, quacking, and oinking along, practically ready to sing "The Farmer in the Dell." A fine board-book addition to an already full field of farmyard books. (Board book. 6 mos.-2) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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