Alsdurf, Phyllis
It’s Milking Time
Illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher Random House, 2012.
$16.99 PICTURE BOOK Content: G
A little girl goes through all of the steps of milking cows on
their family dairy farm. In the
morning she is in charge of gathering the cows from the field and pushing them
towards the milking barn. Her
father connects the stanchions to the cows and she provides the cows with
food. She also feeds the calves in
another room. After they have
milked the cows they clean up all the equipment and the milk is taken by truck
to other places to make into butter or poured into bottles. The little girl is proud of the way she
helps her family on the farm and as she goes to bed she reflects on the fact
that they will start the next day with the same chores because milking takes
place every night and morning. The
illustrations are pretty, but the writing style is inconsistent- at times the
story reads like a poem and other times is it just told like a story.
EL (K-3)-OPTIONAL. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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