Maisy's Tractor: (A Tractor-Shaped Board Book About Maisy the Mouse's Farm Adventure for Toddlers)

by Lucy Cousins, Lucy Cousins (Illustrator)

Overview

Maisy is busy on her farm in a shaped board book full of fun and learning.

Chug, chug! Jump aboard Maisy’s tractor as she plows the field, stopping to feed and milk the cows and bring the lambs back to the barn. But wait a minute—one of the lambs has gone missing! Will Maisy be able to find her woolly friend?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763673055
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	03/24/2015
Series:	Maisy Series
Pages:	18
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 6.80(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

Lucy Cousins is the creator of the beloved Maisy series. She is also the author-illustrator of the widely acclaimed Yummy: Eight Favorite Fairy Tales, a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children’s Book of the Year, as well as I’m the Best and Hooray for Fish! Lucy Cousins lives in Hampshire, England.

Editorial Reviews

Rounded, die-cut edges make it a pleasure to touch and hold. Stylized primary-color gouache pictures are clear and bright. Cousins is a master at paring every experience down to its essential elements, leaving just enough information to hold the attention of her toddler readers.
—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2015-03-11
Hop on the tractor for a busy day on the farm with the unflappable Maisy. Along with the simultaneously publishing Maisy's Plane, this title launches the Go with Maisy board-book series. Rounded, die-cut edges make it a pleasure to touch and hold. Stylized primary-color gouache pictures are clear and bright. Cousins is a master at paring every experience down to its essential elements, leaving just enough information to hold the attention of her toddler readers. Each spread has just one declarative sentence: "She brings some hay to the barn to feed the cows." The little white mouse cheerfully goes about her chores. When she loses a lamb, Maisy calmly retraces her trail, her tractor "chug, chugging" all the way. Of course, astute board-book readers will have noticed the lamb left behind and see that only three made it into the tractor wagon—a nicely embedded math lesson. Youngsters will quickly be chiming in with the "chug, chug" of the tractor and appropriate animals sounds. Her young readers will accept Maisy's self-congratulatory "Well done, Maisy!" as a compliment too. Well done, Maisy! Keep up the good work. (Board book. 6 mos.-3)

Kirkus Reviews