Good morning, farm friends

Annie Bach

Book - 2018

"As the sun rises, animals on a bustling farm get ready for the day. But is everyone awake?

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Subjects
Genres
Children's stories Pictorial works
Board books
Published
New York : Grosset & Dunlap [2018]
Language
English
Main Author
Annie Bach (author)
Item Description
On board pages.
Title and statement of responsibility from cover.
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm
ISBN
9781524786243
Contents unavailable.
Review by Kirkus Book Review

Yet another board book designed to introduce farm animals to young children. The twist in this offering, a follow-up to Night-Night Forest Friends (2013), is that initially the animals are asleep. Readers meet them as the sun rises over idyllic farm scenes rendered digitally in ink and paint. The first spread is quite dark, with a haloed sun that goes from beige to deep purple as the concentric arcs move up the page. A dark red barn sits on a hill above gray-green rolling meadows. Subsequent pages employ the same muted palette in ever lighter shades. Each spread features a standard farm animal: ducks, dogs, sheep, pigs, cows, horses, with chickens and a cartoonish rooster occupying two spreads. The surprising addition of llamas on the fourth spread is apt as domesticated llamas become more common in North America. This must be a free-range farm; the second-to-last spread shows all the animals on both sides of a pasture fence. The final illustration mimics the opening spread, with the animals in the fields and a yellow sun in the sky. Rhyming text identifies each animal and hints at its habits, with some artistic license: How sheep would open a gate, as they are urged to do, is unclear. Although the wake-up motif is fairly fresh, it's not enough to make this book top of the crop.For settings that can't get enough of farm-animal board books. (Board book. 1-3) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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