Field Trip Day
by Lynn Plourde
3-Year-Old: Thumbs Up
Mom: Thumbs Up
Summary: A class goes on a field trip to an organic farm. The kids see cows being milked, chicken eggs being packaged and sheep being sheared. Throughout the book, the chaperons do head counts to make sure all the children are accounted for. One curious student always seems to be missing.
Review: I enjoyed this book because it is educational and modern with an emphasis on organic farming and renewable energy. My son asks me to read this one quite often. I think he enjoys some of of the repetitive phrases and chants like, "time for a head count!" I also ham it up and use different voices for the different characters - the farmer speaks in a dialect (maybe too stereotypical, but I ham it up anyway). It might be a little bit long for a young audience. My son's friend seemed to get a little restless in the middle. So this book is not a complete 10, but it gets a thumbs up from both of us.
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