Your Farm
Author and Illustrator: Jon Klassen
Pages: 24
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Book Description:
With a minimal tableau of familiar objects and a gentle rhythm suited for reading aloud, a farm and all its items—a horse and its hay, a truck, a stool, a fence—are assembled, ending with bedtime as the sun goes down. This is a farm for a young child to have whenever they want to go there. One in a trio of board books focusing on safe spaces, comfort, and imagination, Your Farm signals both a departure for Jon Klassen and a story whose peculiar touches of whimsy stamp the book as iconically his.
Review:
One of the new Board Books from Jon Klassen. His others are “Your Island” and “Your Forest”. We checked out Your Island as well, which follows much the same pattern as Your Farm. This is an object naming book, but with Jon Klassen’s signature style. All the objects have eyes, which is especially funny on the fence, and at first read I thought the stool was an alien like in “Rock from the Sky”.
My son is an early reader, and he was the one who read this book to me. He enjoyed it, and we both giggled over the illustrations.
I think Jon Klassen has created a new series perfect for little readers who like to know the names of objects, but also he has written it in such a way as to create the beginnings of a world that can fuel imagination.
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