I wasn’t sure why suddenly the animals had monologues, because it was so not necessary for them to be speaking and it took away from their behavior.

No information was given at all about the guinea pigs, just “have you ever seen a guinea pig’s tail?” What about their tail, they don’t have one, it’s so small you can’t see it? What? Then: “That rabbit has been up to some mischief,” says the brown guinea pig. Baby Guinea Pigs also live in a hutch, and that’s when I wasn’t sure this should be about baby animals, it should just be the animals period. Baby Rabbit lives in a hutch, yet sniffs noses with kittens and puppies, “because they are all friends.” I think something more could have been said about bunnies besides smelling other animals, which I’m not certain they would actually do, like maybe them running or hopping or eating. I think it’s going to give kids the wrong idea to think kittens drink cow’s milk instead. Kittens play and are given cow’s milk, which I thought was weird because why wouldn’t they drink their mother’s milk. It started off saying a baby sheep is called a lamb, they like to run in the grass.

I thought it would be informative for kids and teach them the names and general behavior of farm animals. I got this book along with other Golden Books as options for a baby shower, and ended up keeping this one.

Every once in a while he does throw in something weird for you to look like the albino bunny in this book, which brought me to wondering about that instead of a regular looking wild bunny or even a pet bunny with floppy ears.Īll in all it is a great book to start children learning about their farmyard and other animals that can be related if you don't mind the outdating of the book itself. His animals are always charming and realistic while seemingly cuddly.

I love the work of Garth Williams and now that I can actually see as well as have a reason to remember the name it seems like he was almost everywhere with books. In the end it would have probably done better if it had stuck one way or another. Sometimes you are introduced to a nice fact about the animal and get to it then all of a sudden you find yourself getting a bit of a storyline that doesn't connect with each other. This is one of those books that would have driven me nuts if I had been older since it does seem to fairly jump around.

Baby Farm Animals by Garth Williams