1 2 3 Count with Me on Granddad's Farm

by Valerie D Johnson, Cee Biscoe (Illustrator)

Overview

A fun, visually-engaging counting journey from 1 to 10 and more!

Welcome to our farm! It is a place to learn about farm life and animals on a farm, and to celebrate family, especially grandparents.

Children will love counting their way through Granddad's farm. Pigs and chickens, cows and horses, apples, tomatoes, and plums-so many things to see and count on the farm. Follow an adventurous young girl as she spends the day with her grandfather helping with chores, riding the tractor, and enjoying a big family dinner to celebrate the farm's bounty and the love of her family.

Learn to Count Build your little ones' counting knowledge while reading together. Count up to 10. Count the farm animals, tractors, apples, flowers, and anything that can be counted. Read it again! Count down to 1.

Count to Learn Engage in meaningful math moments. Find and count the number of animals on each page, count how many animals there are all together, ask how many would be left if some were taken away, and talk about more and less.

Count in the Real World Help your little ones develop a love of numbers and math. Explore your home, neighborhood, and school. Count everyday objects forward up to any number and backward from any number.

A perfect book for little readers. Have fun counting from 1 to 10 and back again as you learn about farm life, farm animals, and family! Grab your copy of 1 2 3 Count with Me on Granddad's Farm.

Next steps:

Register at westoaklanekids dot com for awesome coloring sheets

Share it with others and provide a review, if you love the story

Share your thoughts and stories @wolkidsllc

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798986307817
Publisher:	West Oak Lane Kids, LLC
Publication date:	08/30/2022
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	688,924
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.08(d)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

Editorial Reviews

05/22/2023

A child narrator takes readers along on a numerically based exploration of their grandfather’s farm in this interactive title that counts from one to 10. Focusing each spread on a number, Johnson establishes a subject (“SEVEN cows provide milk”) and invites readers to tot them up (“How many do you see?”), before delving into information around each subject’s traits and care (“The cows like to crunch on grass and oats. We feed them pears as a special snack”). Counted entities include the Black-cued family’s members as well as animals and harvested produce, while supporting paragraphs detail the protagonist’s experiences with their grandfather, who “makes my favorite homemade ice cream” and takes the child on a tractor ride. As Biscoe’s softly rendered images of animal pens and garden beds lead to a big family feast, the text underlines Granddad’s descriptions of family traditions, making for a fond look at agricultural rhythms and intergenerational knowledge handed down. Back matter includes conversation starters and an author’s note. Ages 2–6. (Self-published)

Publishers Weekly

2023-08-08
A Black family visits a farm in Johnson’s counting picture book.

The narrator—one of three young granddaughters—notes that Granddad, a farmer, “has one hundred acres of land. He loves tractors and machines. He loves crops and animals. He loves fresh air and dirt.” Their trips to his farm include helping with animal-related chores. The location, according to the afterword, is based on that of Johnson’s North Carolinian grandfather. Biscoe’s detailed, full-color cartoon images of apple trees, strawberries, tomatoes, roaming horses, and diverse livestock evoke a prosaic, all-encompassing mythological American archetype. There’s no evidence that Granddad has hired help for his seven adorable cows, eight pigs, nine chickens, or for his many acres of orchard, which obfuscates how much labor the work entails. However, this cute story offers a refreshing depiction of a Black family’s connection to familial land and of how agricultural knowledge is passed on. Hints of a buy-local ethos are also apparent: “Granddad sells tomatoes, spinach, green beans, potatoes, and peppers to local markets.” Simple counting tasks—involving one farmhouse or four deer—alternate with longer, more involved paragraphs about farm work; a read-aloud may be modified for younger or older children. Backmatter includes advice on how parents can engage kids in counting and literacy-promoting conversations.

Representation of a Black farmer adds value to this agriculture-themed book for young readers.

Kirkus Reviews