Author/Illustrator: Stephan Gammell
Genre: Fantasy
Major Awards: N/A
Age Group: 1st - 3rd
Summary:
This book is about how Old MacDonald got his farm that we all sang about when we were younger. In this telling of the story, MacDonald wants animals on his farm so he decides to buy an elephant, a lion, and a baboon. While these animals are not farm animals, he does not acknowledge that and uses them like they were. The elephant plows the grass, milks the lion and gets the eggs from the baboon. Or at least tries. While MacDonald sleeps the animals decide to leave without a sound so when he wakes the next day he has no animals. However, his neighbor offers to help him and gives him a horse, a cow, and a chicken. He was eager to start working so he starts with the chicken plowing the grass.
This book is fun to read and quite hilarious. The age group for it is younger elementary which I find is appropriate. The students would laugh at the farmer's foolishness and be able to decipher if the animals actually do what the farmer wanted them to do.
I would use this in a lower elementary level class and have the students do matching with animals after we read it to tell me the purpose of the animals on the farm listed in the book.
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