Does your child like farms and farm animals? Read these children’s books about farms to tie in to nursery songs or a trip to the farm.
If you’re a parent, there’s a good chance you’ve bleated, moo’d, and baa’d about a thousand times by now.
After all, farms and farm animals remain a big hit with kids. They’re in every nursery rhyme and preschool curriculum. Your kids probably have a toy, coloring book, or puzzle about farm animals. They even make their way into birthday party themes.
And of course, we find them throughout many children’s books about farms.
Every year, my family and I visit a nearby farm where my boys are able to see animals they don’t get to see often: pigs, horses, cows, chickens, and goats to name a few. You can also visit the fields to pick seasonal fruit and vegetables, and celebrate events like egg hunts and pumpkin patches.
A wonderful way to tie a trip to the farm back home? Through books. We often borrow children’s books about farms after a trip to one. Reading books can be a fun way to review all the animals we had just seen.
Below are my top picks of children’s books about farms. Hopefully you’ll find a few books from this list to read, whether you visit a farm or simply sing nursery songs about them:
Children’s books about farms
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Saving Emma the Pig by John Chester and Jennifer L. Meyer
Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin
The Cow Said Neigh! by Rory Feek and Bruno Robert
The Hundred-Year Barn by by Patricia MacLachlan and Kenard Pak
Sleep Tight Farm by Eugenie Doyle and Becca Stadtlander
Barnyard Dance by Sandra Boynton
Night Night Farm by Roger Priddy
Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown and Felicia Bond
Old Macdonald Had a Phone by Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross
Farmblock by Christopher Franceschelli and Peskimo
Tractor Mac Arrives at the Farm by Billy Steers
Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle
Barnyard Boogie by Tim McCanna
Mrs. Wishy-Washy’s Farm by Joy Cowley
Old MacDonald Had a Farm by Anne Kennedy
Maisy’s Morning on the Farm by Lucy Cousins
Down by the Barn by Will Hillenbrand
Harvey Potter’s Balloon Farm by Mark Buehner
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