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Old Macdonald Had a Farm

by Camilla Reid, illustrated by Jill Howarth

Interest age: 2 to 3

Published by Macmillan Children’s Books, 2024

  • Board books
  • Interactive
  • Poetry and rhyme

About this book

Young children will love singing along to the familiar nursery rhyme Old Macdonald while learning to count to five in this delightful, interactive board book.  

Cut into each chunky page is a twisty track, along which children can slide embedded counters that feature pictures of the different animals from the song. On the first page is one tractor, followed by two pigs, three cows, four sheep and five hens.

After lots of excitement mimicking farmyard noises throughout the book, everything calms down on the final page: it is night-time and the animals trundle off to sleep in the cosy barn, making this an ideal bedtime read.  

Charming illustrations fill every page and contain a wealth of colourful detail, giving children plenty to explore. In addition to the farm animals, there are lots of other creatures to identify, including dogs, cats, mice, birds and bees.

The counters are easy for little fingers to move along the tracks, helping babies and toddlers to develop their fine motor skills, while robust pages with rounded corners ensure this jolly book will with stand plenty of rough handling. 

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