Yuma Public Library

Cool pastels and sleek, highly graphic lines give visual heft to this brief, tactile tour of the farm. The sheep on the cover sports fuzzy fleece, the barn is made of vertically oriented brown corrugated"wood," the pig features a patch of touch-it-again moleskin, the tractor is equipped with a marvelously rubbery-feeling tire, the hens walk across a corkboard-like yard and the cow's brown spot is a soft terrycloth.

Introduces miniature farm animals, describing their physical characteristics, behavior, diet, and how they are used on the farm.

Describes various farm animals and their uses on the farm, including sheep, pigs, chickens, goats, and cows.

Invites young readers to feel the textures of things found on farms, including ducklings, tractors, wheat, and chicks.

Describes the chores that need to be done on the farm, including gathering eggs, milking cows, grooming horses, and feeding the animals.

Introduces the animals on a farm, including the chickens, ducks, cows, and pigs.

Describes animals on the authors' own farm in New York: dogs, horses, pigs, geese, chickens, cows, goats, sheep, cats, and more! Who lives at Maple Hill Farm? Two dogs, five horses, a pig, some geese, lots of chickens, a few cows, a few goats, several sheep, and four special cats -- these are the animals at Maple Hill Farm. With simple text that is both affectionate and wry, and irresistible illustrations that burst with personality, Alice and Martin...

An interactive introduction to farm animals invites youngsters to make animal noises and practice color and letter recognition while peeping through a spy hole on every page and observing clues to guess which animal will be revealed next in the story.

Photographs and simple text depict the lives of goats on a farm.