(Part 2) Best farm animals books for children according to redditors

There is a child's book that talks about it called "sam's birthmark" that was created for this purpose. https://www.amazon.com/Sams-Birthmark-Martha-Griffin/dp/0692019200

Another book with a facial birthmark that is NOT specifically about the birthmark. https://www.amazon.com/Dinosaur-Farm-Birthmark-Story-about/dp/1722919841/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=ZHGT7CER6KX4E7W1101H

Gregory the Terrible Eater. By Mitchell Sharmat

Super cute book about a goat that will only eat fruit and veggies and healthy human food. His goat parents are concerned that he doesn't eat goat food. It's about his compromise in eating both. It's cute.

Here's the Amazon link:
Gregory, the Terrible Eater https://www.amazon.com/dp/0545129311/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_od2kybJF8BBZ0

Click, Clack, Moo.

Board books :

• Bright Baby series by Roger Priddy is the best set of "first books" / "learn words" books. Animals (yellow book), colors (pink) are two of the best.
  
• Leslie Patricelli: Baby Happy Baby Sad No No Yes Yes and yummy yucky, huggy kissy are also good. (note, do not just read the words, use them for discussion of the pictures)
  
• guess how much I love you
  
• [Barnyard Dance!] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563054426/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_sUXKzbXMP2DV2) and others by Sandra Boynton
  
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret wise brown
  
  Picture books:
  
  
• Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site (also, the train book is lame, skip it)
  
• mommy do you love me by Jeanne Willis
  
• The Maggie b by Irene haas
  
• [tough chicks] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003V4B4TI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_eyXKzbV4CF825) by cece meng
  
• sweet briar goes to school (and goes to camp) by karma wilson
  
• [Move It!: Motion, Forces and You] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1553377591/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_6IXKzbJ00G260)
  
  Early readers:
  
  
• Elephant and Piggie series by Mo Willems (bird on your head, broke my trunk, play the trumpet are faves)
  
• Mr Putter and Tabby series by Ryland (faves are paint the porch, feed the fish, run the race)
  
• Harry the Dirty Dog
  
• Ready-Set-Grow series by Joy Wilt Berry (eg Mine and Yours: A Children's Book About Rights and Responsibilities ) are the most impactful series of books I have ever encountered. They cover emotional and social issues and life skills in a simple, clear way with silly illustrations, and were the major contributors to my emotional maturity.
  
  Chapter books to read together in early elementary:
  
  
• The first three little house books: little house in the big woods, little house on the prairie, farmer boy. Should be read together to discuss issues like racial prejudice/native American displacement, and discipline in the 1800s, but they are super valuable books to understanding how pioneers and farmers lived. The later books are for more mature kids, due to the hardships the family goes through.
  
• EB White books : Charlotte's web, trumpet of the swan
  
  Chapter books for later elementary or middle school:
  
  
• in general, Newbury award books
  
• Island of the blue dolphins
  
• The slave dancer
  
• my side of the mountain (high reading level due to archaic style)
  
• The False Prince Jennifer Nielsen
  
• The Shamer's Daughter series by Lene Kaaberbol is a great series to use for thinking about compassion and responsibility for those we care about, how guilt and shame require the guilty person to agree with an assessment that their actions were wrong; truth, lies, and stories; assumptions and false accusations; and other ways in which right and wrong may be determined.... But it is a very exciting and compelling story. It does have some cursing (damn, hell) and abusive behavior (brother beating and calling his tween sister a whore, evil ruler locking people up and feeding to a dragon), so check for maturity. But it is an absolutely amazing series that I can not recommend enough.
  
  Am posting on phone so will be submitting and editing. This will be a long post.

• Press Here
  This book is SO much fun. It’s an interactive one so more fun when they get a little older.
  
  
• Room on the Broom
  A fun story about sharing and the importance of friendship when you need help.
  
  
• Pig the Pug
  This one is a hilarious story about a mean dog falling out a window lol. It was recommended to me by a little girl at Barnes and Noble. She picked it up and said “Wanna read about the worst dog ever?” She wasn’t wrong haha.
  
  
• Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site
  Just a nice little rhyming bedtime story about construction equipment.
  
  
• Baby Beluga
  Yes, like the Raffi song! Singing books are sooo great to help get your little one interested in talking. This was one of my favorite songs as a kid but I only recently found out about the book. My son loves singing this with me.
  
  
• I Love You Stinkyface
  About loving your kid no matter who they are. Although I feel like it’s slightly geared toward moms of boys, it’s great for any kid or parent (they don’t actually use pronouns for the kid in the book FYI).
  
  
• Someday
  About the dreams and wishes for your baby as they grow up. Definitely on the sappy side, geared a little more toward moms of girls but I read it to my son often (and cry while I do it).
  
  
• Little Blue Truck
  Cute rhyming story about the importance of friendship and being nice to those you meet.
  
  
• Go Away Big Green Monster
  This one is a little older but idk if everyone has heard of it. It’s essentially an interactive book that teaches your kid that they have control of monsters. Each page pieces together a picture of a monster (it’s not a scary one), until you tell the monster to go away, and then each page takes a piece of the monster away.
  
  
• Anything written by Mo Willems!!
  The Pigeon books, Elephant and Piggie books, and Knuffle Bunny are all great. Funny for adults and engaging for kids.
  
  (Will edit and add more later as I think of them)

http://www.amazon.com/Baaa-David-Macaulay/dp/0395395887
or
http://www.amazon.com/Motel-Mysteries-David-Macaulay/dp/0395284252/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y
would be my guess? I think the TV thing sounds familiar from Motel of Mysteries, but it's been a while since I read it.

I love Good Night Farm and read it before bed most nights. It’s a board book (so it’s more durable and kiddo can turn the pages herself) and it has little swatches of fabric on the pages (like the horses mane, the cow’s spot, one of the baby chickens) so kiddo has something interesting to feel on each page. If you go on amazon and look up “touch and feel books” you can find a lot of different ones that offer the cool fabric or texture feature. I think it makes it a little more interesting for babies.

There are a couple of really cute llama coloring books Llama Coloring Book! A Unique Collection Of Coloring Pages https://www.amazon.com/dp/1641938544/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_NfkuDbPRCBT18

Reading is awesome

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs

This story is told from the wolf's point of view. It's all about how he was wrongly accused and how cruel those 3 little pigs actually were. In all reality none of it was his fault, he is so misunderstood!

Gregory, the Terrible Eater if it's a children's book.

Was it "Pippin the Christmas Pig"? Pippin The Christmas Pig https://www.amazon.com/dp/0439650623/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_Pql0Bb3JZ5VQJ

I remember this cover... look familiar?

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1. Never read it, and I don't plan on doing so. It's not really my cup of tea.
   
   
2. Much darker than the cartoon. It's still a kids' book, but it's pretty grim. A worth while book? Yes. A fun children's story? To some extent, but not exactly. I would go about reading this by first immersing myself in other barnyard children's literature, and then moving on to this one. I recommend the Freddy the Detective books.
   
   
3. Fantastic novel. One of my favorites for sure, though you should definitely be in a sci-fi mood before reading it. Maybe start with some Asimov short stories then move into this one? It's also very grim. I'm noticing a theme... ;)
   
   
4. Dark, dark, DARK. Grim, grim, GRIM. This is easily one of the most depressing books I have ever read, if not the most depressing. Orwell is just a really morose guy, honestly. It will make you angry, miserable, and overall emotional as hell. Get ready for the emotional roller coaster if you want to read this one. There is no preparing for it, honestly. If you wanted to stick with the barnyard theme, maybe read this one after Charlotte's Web?
   
   Hope that helped!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BKR46ZG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

My daughter was(is) a big fan of Little Blue Truck.

We also like Goodnight Gorilla and Peek a Who

For ones that can grow with her, I'd recommend:
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
Press Here
How do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight

Honestly, anything by Mo Willems or Jane Yolen is going to be good! I have some books on my daughter's gift list too.

For more suggestions, a friend of mine is a librarian and has a TON of books pinned on Pinterest. Here's just one of her boards.

For us? My daughter can always use more books. We have a ton, but she loves them. I think I'm most interested in The Day the Crayons Quit for her right now. It looks really good and funny and we like to read a little above her level to her anyway (she's almost 4 so at the bottom of this one.)

Green eggs and ham.

I did the same thing, and it's actually really fun to see what people bring, as many will choose a favorite book from their childhood, or their kids' childhood.

We love Sandra Boynton in this house. They rhyme, which my son likes, and they aren't terrible, which mom and dad like. We do a lot of 'Moo Baa La La La' and 'The Going to Bed Book'.

My son LOVES touch and feel books and has for a long time. He also loves books with flaps and books that you press to make noise. He has this one that's both that has been a favorite for months.

Other books I enjoy reading to him are Quick as a Cricket and the Very Hungy Catepillar.

He's only now hitting the stage where he will sit through more than a sentence on a page, so we have many, like Guess How Much I Love You, that I love but he's still working up to.

Baaa by David Macaulay. Discovered it in 6th grade and I still check it out from the library every once in a while and have a laugh.

I really liked The Monster at the End of this Book, The Poky Little Puppy, Persnickety, Corduroy, Where the Wild Things Are, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, The Rainbow Fish, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, The Stinky Cheese Man, Miss Nelson is Missing, Go Away Big Green Monster, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Stone Soup, Frog and Toad, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, and, of course, every Dr. Seuss book.

This is not old enough to be your book unless it is a 2nd printing but I'll throw it out there... https://www.amazon.com/Pippin-Christmas-Pig-Jean-Little/dp/0439650623

My almost 2 year old enjoys the poke-a-dot books like this one: http://www.amazon.com/Poke-Dot-MacDonalds-Poke-able-Poppin/dp/160169024X

https://www.amazon.com/Everything-You-Should-Know-About/dp/1974207250/ref=sr_1_2?hvadid=241636203032&hvdev=t&hvlocphy=9011896&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=11809718974828712639&hvtargid=kwd-15166659752&keywords=book+about+pigs&qid=1555014278&s=gateway&sr=8-2 enjoy my book it really is a good read. Thing is a straight up page turner.