Tag Archives: Farm Animals

The Seven Chinese Sisters

Rating: (14 reviews)
Author: Kathy Tucker
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Product Description
(Ages 5-8) Once there were seven Chinese sisters who lived together and took care of each other. Each one had a special talent. When baby Seventh Sister is snatched by a hungry dragon, her loving sisters race to save her.
In Kathy Tucker’s delightful update of [...]

Saint Francis and the Christmas Donkey

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Robert Byrd
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile

Product Description
When Saint Francis, the patron saint of animals, encounters a donkey who is unhappy with his lot in life, Francis tells him a story that heals. True, long ago God punished the mischievous animal by giving him long ears, a loud bray, and heavy burdens to bear. [...]

Christmas in the Manger Board Book

Rating: (29 reviews)
Author: Nola Buck
Publisher: HarperFestival

Product Description
The gentle beauty of the story of the first Christmas is now available as a board book. With a simple, lyrical text and radiant artwork, this book is perfect for the youngest child to be a part of the wonder of the Nativity.

P.B. Bear’s Christmas

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Lee Davis
Publisher:

Product Description
P.B. Bear is counting the days until Christmas! Young children will love celebrating Christmas with P.B. Bear and his friends. They can: guess what’s inside the box from Grandma, watch as P.B. and his friends make snowballs into a snowman, count the stars on Christmas Eve, and follow P.B. [...]

Donkey’s Christmas Song

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Nancy Tafuri
Publisher: Scholastic Press

Product Description
A very special baby is born in a stable under a star, surrounded by friendly farmyard animals. The donkey wants to be the first to welcome the baby, but he is too shy. So the doves welcome him with their “Coo-coo,” the cow with her “Moo-moo,” and [...]

The True Gift: A Christmas Story

Rating: (43 reviews)
Author: Patricia MacLachlan
Publisher: Atheneum

Product Description
All year long Lily and Liam look forward to Christmas on their grandparents’ farm. It’s always the perfect trip — walking to the lilac library, trimming the tree, giving gifts. But this year, thanks to a white cow alone in the meadow, things will be different. This Christmas, [...]

Merry Christmas, from Biscuit

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Publisher: HarperFestival

Product Description
Follow Biscuit and the little girl as they make a very special present for Grandma and Grandpa–a Christmas photo album filled with alll of their favorite Christmas memories!At the end of the book, there is a special section to add your own holiday memories, making this Christmas [...]

A Christmas Story

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Brian Wildsmith
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Product Description
Who followed Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem? The shepherds tending their flocks nearby, the wise men–and also Rebecca, Mary and Joseph’s young neighbor. With his richly detailed paintings, glowing vibrant colors and shining gold, Wildsmith gives readers a fresh vision of the familiar Christmas [...]

Baby Jesus is Here!: A Really Woolly & Friends Christmas Story (Really Woolly Series)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Thomas Nelson
Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Product Description
The really cute, really popular Really WoollyTM series presents its latest: a heartwarming story that proclaims, “Baby Jesus is Here!” This adorable little board book features a die-cut cover and woolly little lambs for kids to touch and feel. Share the amazing story of the very first [...]

The Three Pigs

Rating: (71 reviews)
Author: David Wiesner
Publisher: Clarion Books

Product Description
This picture book begins placidly (and familiarly) enough, with three pigs collecting materials and going off to build houses of straw, sticks, and bricks. But the wolf”s huffing and puffing blows the first pig right out of the story . . . and into the realm of [...]

Christmas in the Manger Board Book

Rating: (25 reviews)
Author: Nola Buck
Publisher: HarperFestival

Product Description
The gentle beauty of the story of the first Christmas is now available as a board book. With a simple, lyrical text and radiant artwork, this book is perfect for the youngest child to be a part of the wonder of the Nativity.

Suzy Goose and the Christmas Star

Author: Petr Horacek
Publisher: Candlewick

Product Description
Tenacious Suzy Goose aims to top her Christmas tree with a star from the sky — with unexpectedly wondrous results — in this vibrant, whimsical tale.
It’s Christmas Eve, and Suzy Goose and her friends are admiring their beautifully decorated tree. It’s perfect except for one thing: a star for the top. [...]

Charlotte’s Web

Rating: (428 reviews)
Author: E. B. White
Publisher: HarperCollins

Product Description
Beloved by generations, Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little are two of the most cherished stories of all time. Now, for the first time ever, these treasured classics are available in lavish new collectors’ editions. In addition to a larger trim size, the original black-and-white art by Garth [...]

Old MacDonald Had a Farm (Little Golden Book)

Rating: (5 reviews)
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Publisher: Golden Books

The Little Red Hen (Little Golden Book)

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Golden Books

Product Description
Beloved illustrator J. P. Miller’s graphic, colorful farm animals seem to jump right off the page—but they aren’t jumping to help the Little Red Hen plant her wheat! Young children will learn a valuable lesson about teamwork from this funny, favorite folktale.

Farm Animals (A Chunky Book(R))

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Phoebe Dunn
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Book Description
Photographed in full color. All the friendly animals on the farm–ducks, sheep, horses, and more–are presented and identified by name in lively, color photographs.  

The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes (Sandpiper Books)

Rating: (42 reviews)
Author: Dubose Heyward
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Book Description
The country bunny attains the exalted position of Easter Bunny in spite of her responsibilities as the mother of twenty-one children.

Duck for President

Rating: (43 reviews)
Author: Doreen Cronin
Publisher: Atheneum

Book Description
Our fellow Americans,
It is our pleasure, our honor, our duty as citizens to present to you Duck for president in 2008. Here is a duck who began in a humble pond, who worked his way up to farmer, to governor, and now perhaps the highest office in the [...]

Minerva Louise on Christmas Eve

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Janet Morgan Stoeke
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile

Book Description
What is that fat guy in the red suit doing on the roof? wonders Minerva Louise one snowy evening. She follows him down the chimney and, to her surprise, sees a big tree inside. The harebrained hen can’t make any sense of it, but young children [...]

Baby Jesus is Here!: A Really Woolly & Friends Christmas Story (Really Woolly Series)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Thomas Nelson
Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Book Description
The really cute, really popular Really WoollyTM series presents its latest: a heartwarming story that proclaims, “Baby Jesus is Here!” This adorable little board book features a die-cut cover and woolly little lambs for kids to touch and feel. Share the amazing story of the very first [...]

Big Red Barn Board Book (rpkg)

Rating: (67 reviews)
Author: Margaret Wise Brown
Publisher: HarperFestival

Book Description
By the big red barn
In the great green field,
There was a pink pig
Who was learning to squeal.
There were horses and sheep and goats and geese–and a jaunty old scarecrow leaning on his hoe. And they all lived together by the big red barn. In joyous and exuberant
Pictures, [...]

Barnyard Dance! (Boynton on Board)

Rating: (139 reviews)
Author: Sandra Boynton
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

Book Description
Everybody sing along—because it’s time to do-si-do in the barnyard with a high-spirited animal crew! From Boynton on Board, the bestselling series of board books, here is BARNYARD DANCE, with Sandra Boynton’s twirling pigs, fiddle-playing cows, and other unforgettable animals. Extra-big, extra-fat, and extra-fun, BARNYARD DANCE [...]

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

Rating: (140 reviews)
Author: Jon Scieszka
Publisher: Puffin

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“There has obviously been some kind of mistake,” writes Alexander T. Wolf from the pig penitentiary where he’s doing time for his alleged crimes of 10 years ago. Here is the “real” story of the three little pigs whose houses are huffed and puffed to smithereens… from the wolf’s [...]

Sheep in a Jeep

Rating: (72 reviews)
Author: Nancy E. Shaw
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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“Beep! Beep! Sheep in a jeep on a hill that’s steep.”
This story, much like the jeep, gathers momentum from page one. When five foolish sheep cram into one jeep, their high spirits and occasional lack of foresight (like forgetting to steer) combine to make a riotous, if [...]

I Went Walking

Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Sue Williams
Publisher: Red Wagon Books

Book Description
A young child goes for a walk and discovers a colorful parade of animals along the way. “What a charmer. . . . An excellent story hour choice.”–Booklist

Open the Barn Door, Find a Cow (A Chunky Book(R))

Rating: (42 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Book Description
Illustrated in full color. Open the barn door and take a tour around the barnyard to find out just who’s making all those wonderful animal sounds.  

Whittington

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Alan Armstrong
Publisher: Yearling

Book Description
Whittington is a roughneck Tom who arrives one day at a barn full of rescued animals and asks for a place there. He spins for the animals—as well as for Ben and Abby, the kids whose grandfather does the rescuing—a yarn about his ancestor, the nameless cat who [...]

Charlotte’s Web (Trophy Newbery)

Rating: (412 reviews)
Author: E. B. White, Garth Williams, Edith Goodkind Rosenwald, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Product Description
These are the words in Charlotte’s web, high in the barn. Her spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, as well as the feelings of a little girl named Fern … [...]

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (Stories to Go!)

Rating: (47 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Aladdin
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Imagine all the happiness and wealth you could achieve if you found a magic pebble that granted your every wish! Sylvester Duncan, an unassuming donkey who collects pebbles “of unusual shape and color,” experiences just such a lucky find. But before he can make all his wishes come true, the young [...]

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type

Rating: (178 reviews)
Author: Doreen Cronin
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
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The literacy rate in Farmer Brown’s barn goes up considerably once his cows find an old typewriter and begin typing. To the harassed farmer’s dismay, his communicative cows quickly become contentious:
Dear Farmer Brown,
The barn is very cold at night. We’d like some electric blankets.
Sincerely,
The Cows
When [...]

Dooby Dooby Moo

Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Doreen Cronin
Publisher: Atheneum

Book Description
Duck and his friends are at it again.
This time they’re pooling their considerable resources to win a local talent show, because first prize is a TRAMPOLINE.
The cows want to sing.
The sheep want to sing.
The pigs want to…dance. Dance?
And Duck? Duck just wants to win that trampoline. But first [...]

Together

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Dimitrea Tokunbo
Publisher: Orchard Books

Book Description
The sheep bleats, “Baa, baa, baa.” She gives us warm, soft wool. Giving to me, giving to you, Together there’s a lot we can do. The beautifully illustrated picture book TOGETHER introduces children to farm animals and the ways they work to provide for us. 50,000 paperback [...]