Animal Families: Farm by Nosy Crow, Jane Ormes
Published by Nosy Crow on October 1st 2019
ISBN: 1536208302
Pages: 14
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This colorful, lift-the-flap board book takes the reader through a variety of farm animals from sheep to donkeys. As part of a series of board books with the same overarching theme, it is informative as it teaches children about the names for male/female/baby animals for different species. The anthropomorphizing of the animals as “mommy” and “daddy” and the reference to animal “families” moves it from being informative to cutesy and old fashioned. The illustrations are bright and bold, and small children will love the flaps and the repetitive/predictable text. This book is best shared one-on-one, but would not be well suited for diverse family types as it only refers to daddy and mommy.

Reviewed by Jessie Trafton, Skidompha Library, Damariscotta