Barnyard Dance!
A bespectacled fiddle-playing cow and a pig twirling a sheep are featured in a barnyard dance. On board pages with a die-cut cover.
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4recommend
4mentions
4people
2017–2025years
100% recommend
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What Hacker News says
- If Little Blue Truck isn’t on your regular list you should add it. We also loved Pond by Jim LaMarche (older audience, but beautifully illustrated and told), the Boynton books are fun to read aloud especially Barnyard Dance, and The Going to Bed Book. There are more, but these are the highlights from that age range
- Lately, I don't even have time to watch TV or movies anymore, so we don't even have a TV. We of course have computers, tablets, and smartphones, given the world today. But we never put them in front of our toddler for her to watch. The only time we have her looking at a smartphone is when we do a video call to grandparents.
These days, she's really excited for me to read books to her. She grabs her books off the shelves and brings them to me, and when we're done, she goes and grabs more. Last night, she kept wanting to go back to reading one called Barnyard Dance over and over again. She loves it.
After experiencing life with her not caring about screens, I'm actually quite excited and intrigued. I love that she's excited to read books, demands me to read them to her, and cries when I say it's time to stop and go sleep or go eat or whatever. I've not yet experienced life with her extensively in front of screens, but at this point, I think I enjoy life without screens for the toddler in terms of our family relationship, and I think I'll keep it going for as long as I can. She seems to be full of life without them, why try to fix what's not broken?
Eventually though, I wouldn't mind if she became a software engineer, if that's how she's bent, so probably need to introduce screens sometime. But we'll put it off for as long as possible and when screens do come into her life, hopefully, she'll go at them with the same excitement she goes at books and also doesn't lose her love for books.
- My kids and I have Barnyard Dance memorized. We will often recite it as we dance around the room. I think Mrs. Boynton's work will be treasured for years to come and I hope she receives the credit for the amazing work she has done.
- Same experience here! I had never seen them, but when we had our daughter my aunt wisely gave us barnyard dance. I was skeptical at first, but the collection of boynton has grown and is still very popular at 18 months.
Doggies is a fun read for onlookers, since it's basically dad or mom making dog noises for 15 minutes straight.
