The Farmer

by Liesbet Slegers

Overview

A new sturdy board book with flaps from bestselling author-illustrator Liesbet Slegers!

It’s a new day at the farm. The farmer feeds his animals, picks fruit, waters the vegetables, and carries hay in his tractor. There’s a lot to see and do at the farm!

An informative book for toddlers with flaps about a day at the farm. For toddlers ages 18 months and up, with a focus on the world around the child.

At Clavis, our focus is on what’s best for children. We believe that books play an important role in each new phase in life. Our toddler books are tailored for every stage from 0 to 3 and focus on the five most important themes in their life: daily life, skills, emotions, the world, and language development. The age range and theme of every book in our toddler series can be found on the back cover in the form of a colored train.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781605375861
Publisher:	Clavis
Publication date:	10/13/2020
Pages:	10
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	1 - 4 Years

About the Author

Liesbet Slegers (1975, Belgium) studied Graphics and Illustrations at the Saint-Lucas institute of Antwerp. She works as a fulltime graphic designer and illustrator. With her simple, recognizable style and vivid colours she knows how to attract the attention of every toddler. In her many books, Slegers frequently focuses on “the first experience of a toddler,” a time she characterized as “exciting but also very scary! I try to help them with my books,” she added, “and also try to give the parents or teacher some assistance!”

Editorial Reviews

2021-01-27
Learn about farm animals and the farmer’s work in this lift-the-flap board book from Belgium and the Netherlands.

This toddler-friendly tale is part picture identification and part prediction. Each double-page spread shows four simply drawn animals or items on the left while the right side poses a question beneath a picture and invites readers to lift the flap on which both are printed. This setup clearly displays the featured items, and the questions invite little readers to practice making predictions about what will happen next. Sometimes there is an obvious answer to the question, as in which animal gets which type of food; other times, the question elicits a yes or no answer. In this way, Slegers keeps the experience of each page predictable without being repetitive. Some questions are confusing: Yes, the farmer appears to be watering the cauliflower, lettuce, and carrots he’s walking past with a watering can, but the answer is he’s not—“he’s watering the tomatoes in the greenhouse.” Others fail to purposefully include all the items depicted on verso, so that something like the pitchfork becomes simply unused background. The illustrations have thick, black outlines, with simple, bold colors and features. There isn’t much detail save the realistic texture of the farmer’s work clothes and the close-up photographed image of straw used in place of drawing on the bales of hay. The farmer presents White and is explicitly gendered male, and there are no other humans in the book.

Reader engagement saves this from complete unoriginality. (Board book. 1-2)

Kirkus Reviews