You’ll remember that I love Barefoot music books so I wasn’t complaining when I had the opportunity to review a few more titles. The Farmyard Jamboree is a really cute story/song that is inspired on a Chilean folktale. In the story, the young boy is given various animals as pets but numerous family members. Each animal that he is given ends up having a baby of its own expanding his collection of pets two by two. This story about barnyard animals therefore also is a great source to use in teaching children to count by two’s up to the number sixteen. Bold and colorful illustrations kept my son interested enough in the story for me to read it without having to resort to singing out all my “ay! ay! ayes!” (We had a good time.)
My two year old has been repeatedly asking for “an-mal boogie” since receiving our copy of it. (Animal Boogie, that is.) Fred Penner is the artist who sings us through the jungle encouraging children to shake like bears, stomp like elephants and slither like snakes. All while boogie-woogie-oogie-ing” about the place. The tune is admittedly catchy and I’m not going to tell you about my own amazing abilities at boogie woogie-ing. Some things are better left to one’s imagination.
Once again we are tremendously pleased and overjoyed with Barefoot Books. These books have a remarkable ability to draw the reader, both child and adult alike, into the story with song. The songs are simple, true, but they engage the mind at the same time which is wonderful.
Again I’d have to encourage you to check them out if you haven’t not done so!
Carrie comes by her book obsession honestly, having descended from a long line of bibliophiles. She blogs about books regularly at Reading to Know.
For fans of Barefoot Books … the Annual Winter Sale is on now until January 31, 2010.