Good Morning, Farm Friends

by Annie Bach

Overview

Rise and shine! This charming board book about farm animals waking up and getting ready for a busy day is perfect for the youngest readers.

As the sun rises, the animals on a bustling farm get ready for the day. Pigs roll around in the mud, cows wait at the milking stall, and horses run through pastures. But is everyone awake? The rooster will make sure of it! The fun rhyming text and colorful illustrations in this delightful book will help little ones start their day off just right.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781524786243
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	05/08/2018
Pages:	26
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Annie Bach is the author-illustrator of Night-Night, Forest Friends, as well as several other board books and picture books. She has been drawing since she was a little girl and still loves to create the same playful, whimsical creatures she imagined as a child. Annie draws inspiration from animals and nature, and brings her characters to life through digital media, paint, and ink. She lives with her family in Seattle, Washington.

Editorial Reviews

2018-05-23
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)

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