Anne Todd O. (forestguardian) reviewed on + 88 more book reviews
This classic like many others written in the 1950's was deaccessioned by a library. Their copy was twenty years old.
The children lived on a farm in NH and did CHORES. Nate's hen laid an ENORMOUSE egg and the hilarity and plot take off. When I read this aloud to MY kids in the 1980's they loved it and it was their first civics lesson. Kids CAN and DO write their representatives and affect policy in Washington! They can donate and solicit funds for projects they care about. And the more unusual or rare something is the more we need to pay attention and try to learn from it. Despite the party line telephone this is a very contemporary book!
The illustrations are as good as Rahl Dahl's.
The children lived on a farm in NH and did CHORES. Nate's hen laid an ENORMOUSE egg and the hilarity and plot take off. When I read this aloud to MY kids in the 1980's they loved it and it was their first civics lesson. Kids CAN and DO write their representatives and affect policy in Washington! They can donate and solicit funds for projects they care about. And the more unusual or rare something is the more we need to pay attention and try to learn from it. Despite the party line telephone this is a very contemporary book!
The illustrations are as good as Rahl Dahl's.
