Sitting on the Farm

by Bob King, Bill Slavin (Illustrator)

What do you do if a bug joins you for lunch and won't leave? You call your friend the frog. But what if the frog refuses to leave? Like The Wheels on the Bus, this pattern song makes a great picture book. Kids will have fun singing along and picking out the repeating details in Bill Slavin's illustrations. Musical notation is included.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Animals, M M Romance, Storytime, Juvenile

Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

Reviews

[Tara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Story 3.5
Illustrations 3

[Lindsay · Rating 3 out of 5]

I used the Spanish version of Sitting on the Farm, Aquí en la Granja, Qué Maravilla, for a farm-themed program for both Spanish and bilingual story times. The Spanish version also rhymes, which is very nice. In the story, a little girl calls her animal friend the frog on the phone so that he can eat a bug who has unexpectedly joined her for lunch. However, the frog doesn't want to leave, so she calls the next animal, and so on and so forth.

It's a very fun story, and it could be told with animal puppets and a phone rather than read aloud directly from the book. The next time I use the story, I need to have the kids sing Five Little Monkeys during the program, so we can also pretend to make calls to the doctor. :-)

[Lindsi · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is about a girl, on a farm, who starts out with a bug on her knee. She calls a frog to come to lunch and he scare the bug away, but then she has a frog on her knee and it keeps going until she’s stuck with a bear on her knee. This book would be a fun one to read out loud because of the specific rhythm and rhyme of the words. In the back there is also music if the reader wanted to learn the tune and sing the story. This book would be a great book to teach the concepts of prepositions, specifically “on” with the repetition of “on my knee.” You could teach others as well as the other animals move around in the pictures. You can ask the children where the dog is and they can practice using other prepositions and adjectives.

[Nell Adams · Rating 3 out of 5]

When you first look at the cover of this book, it is very inviting and seems extremely interesting. As I read the book, I enjoyed the illustrations because of how detailed they were. The text is very repetitive. Each page says the same exact thing except the animal it talks about changes each time. This is actually a song and could be fun to teach children a fun, entertaining song to sing. I am not sure if this would be a good, goofy book to teach kids of different animals but it is definitely a cute book.

[JustOneMoreBook.com · Rating 5 out of 5]

Imaginative, engaging illustrations and plenty of predictable, belt-it-out repetition rendered our copy of this sing-along comedy a ragged but treasured relic of the fleeting toddler years.

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[Mary · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sing-song, backyard memories.

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute book with repeating rhyme.

[Valerie · Rating 4 out of 5]

incorporate stuffed animals and a telephone and act out this tale - sure to bring the house down! Toddlers - a little too many animals, Preschoolers - just right!

[kate · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hysterical rhyming book about a girl trying to eat lunch with her animal friends.

[Brindi Michele · Rating 4 out of 5]

a fun book and great with props for preschool story time!