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Eggs from Red Hen Farm: Farm to Table with Mazes and Maps

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Overview

A fun story with maps and mazes shows children where their food comes from.

Ruby and Ned gather eggs from their hens and ride their red truck to deliver the eggs—to the farmer’s market, the restaurant, the school, the grocery story, and the bakery. The baker uses the eggs in her yummiest cookies—and gives them to Ruby and Ned!

Interactive: with 6 mazes and illustrations with fun details to “spy.”

Lots of learning fun: map skills, sequencing, STEM, communities, and more.

Picture clues help children pick out important words.

Female role model: Ruby drives a truck and is a farmer.

Art style has the elegant charm of American folk art.

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ISBN-13:	9780823447824
Publisher:	Holiday House
Publication date:	03/01/2022
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	9.78(w) x 8.29(h) x 0.36(d)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Born in London to U.S. citizens, Monica Wellington was raised in Germany and Switzerland. She studied pottery, painting, and printmaking at the University of Michigan School of Art and later studied illustration under Bruce Degan at the School of Visual Arts. She has illustrated more than forty books for children and has written most of them. Dear Ballerina, published by Holiday House, was inspired by Monica’s daughter, a dancer with Les Ballets de Monte Carlo.

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04/01/2022
Toddler-PreS–This book about the concept of farm-to-table pulls double duty as an introduction to cartography. Readers map their way through the sprawling spreads with Ruby and Ned, first following them on the stone path from the farmhouse to the henhouse. A side panel shows landmarks to look for "past the apple trees, the cows, and the sunflowers." After counting and packing the eggs, the farmers navigate through town to the open air market. Ned stays behind at their stand, while Ruby makes the deliveries. She travels to the school, the bakery, the grocer, and the café. Children can joyfully trace their fingers over the gamelike spreads of streets and paths to each locale. The final map, when Ruby returns to the farmers' market, is intentionally devoid of directions or landmarks, challenging readers to route their own way back. The story line directs the focus toward the complementary concepts. The farm-to-table theme originates from the henhouse to locations where the eggs are sold and made into food; Ruby uses the eggs to teach a cooking class at the school; this book points to all of it. Map clarity is aided by Wellington's cheerful illustrations. Lucid lines and separation of spaces aids the target audience of toddlers and preschoolers. The cast of characters includes nods to representation. VERDICT Recommended for the seamless introduction of many different concepts in an accessible format.—Richelle Rose

School Library Journal

2022-03-02
Running a farm is hard work, but hard work can be fun!
Ruby and Ned live on a farm and run a business selling eggs. Each of them is good at different things. Ned is skilled with numbers, so he counts the eggs and handles the money at the farmers market. Ruby is better at other tasks, like driving the delivery truck and making deliveries. Readers follow Ruby on her rounds—we see the routes she takes to her various destinations and what she does once she gets there. Ned’s experience at the farmers market is not shown. The book ends with the pair getting home, where they check on their chickens and enjoy the treats the baker made for them with their eggs. This book is fun and interactive, with mazelike road maps offering opportunities for seek-and-finds and a shortest path problem for children to solve. The gouache illustrations are simple and colorful. A cute polka-dot hen who makes quips in speech bubbles adds humor. Map keys with symbols make the seek-and-find activities easier and allow young readers to perhaps see details they may not have noticed otherwise. Ruby is White with blond hair, and Ned has light brown skin and brown hair. Background characters have a variety of skin tones and hair colors. (This book was reviewed digitally.)
A winsome interactive picture book with STEM appeal. (Interactive picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews

"Monica Wellington packs a remarkable number of concepts and ideas into 'Eggs From Red Hen Farm.' . . . What works as a gentle primer on the mutual benefits of free-market transactions also serves as an introduction to navigation."—Wall Street Journal

"The book design is inventive. . . . A delightful entry point for young readers to learn valuable mapping skills and enjoy searching the pages for all the nooks and crannies where eggs can be found."—The Horn Book

"[A] seamless introduction of many different concepts in an accessible format."—School Library Journal

"This book is fun and interactive, with mazelike road maps offering opportunities for seek-and-finds and a shortest path problem for children to solve. . . . A winsome interactive picture book with STEM appeal."—Kirkus Reviews

"A sense of joy pervades Wellington’s well- structured gouache paintings, which use color and detail to create profuse yet orderly patterns within the scenes. This appealing picture book offers a playful introduction to maps for young children."—Booklist

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