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4.08 AVERAGE
4.08 AVERAGE
This is such a sweet story about a family transitioning to life on a farm. There is so much to learn in this simple story; my kids and I even learned some things and we are a farming family ourselves! I think it would be a great read for children with little to no farming experience.
The perfect comfort read! I loved this book as a child and it’s still so good to read now.
slow-paced
I enjoyed its prequel, The Children of Cherry Tree Farm, and see how CofWF follows similar format but with farming rather than wildlife, but it sent me to sleep. Sadly it did not send my 6 year old daughter to sleep - she enjoyed it and wants to read the next one
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
This was such a great book to read with my 6yo. She's loved every minute of it and is even more determined that we'll be buying and running a farm (if only!)
An innocent book filled with childlike wonder. Thoroughly enjoyable even after all these years!
I had a short period of wanting to be a farmer as a kid, and it was because of this book. Of course, I realised fairly quickly that it was a highly romanticised view of farm life and that I didn't really want to be up at 5am to milk cows, or to spend my days scraping chook droppings off the floor, but at the time it sounded very briefly wonderful - especially the chapter on working in the dairy. To this day I still have a yen to make my own butter.
Romanticised or not, it's still a great book. Even three decades later I still have my copy and take it off the shelves every so often for another read. It's kind of comforting in its relentless enthusiasm for manual labour...
Romanticised or not, it's still a great book. Even three decades later I still have my copy and take it off the shelves every so often for another read. It's kind of comforting in its relentless enthusiasm for manual labour...
After reading about the four siblings living on Cherry Tree farm, I wanted more. And I came to know that Enid has written two more books on the series. So glad that I picked the series in the first place.
The children are now living in a country instead of a city. They have their own farm called the willow tree farm.
How the adventures of the brothers and sisters unravel is really good.
The children are now living in a country instead of a city. They have their own farm called the willow tree farm.
How the adventures of the brothers and sisters unravel is really good.
I think I preferred the first book because it was about animals living in the wild and Tammylan but this book was more focused on farm life and looking after domesticated animals.