PRESCHOOL
Anderson, Derek

Story County: Here We Come!

(4) PS The farmer gets his animals to help him "make a farm"--an undertaking that requires building a barn, planting crops, and painting a sky. The story's meta aspect isn't strong (most picture book readers won't question the idea of barn-building animals), but illustrations of the creatures behaving like humans (e.g., Miss Cow sleeps with a purple eyeshade) are reliable preschool-crowd-pleasers.

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