On the Farm: Our Holiday with Uncle Kev (Roland Harvey, A&U)

On the Farm: Our Holiday with Uncle Kev is the latest addition to Roland Harvey’s successful series of picture books, and it captures all of the fun and mayhem of this imagined pastoral setting. Every page explores a different aspect of Uncle Kev’s farm as he goes about his daily routine and gets ready for the annual Harvest Festival. Readers are treated to a look at everything from the livestock, vineyards and orchards to Uncle Kev’s shed and the splendour of the Harvest Festival itself. Clever prose, lyrics and letters accompany detailed illustrations to create a world with which child readers aged three and up are sure to engage. Indeed there is much to delight children across a wide age range, as there are many levels of information and much fun to be had. This is a wonderful book for the young and young at heart, and should be a great success in retail, library and school environments, requiring very little promotion to leap off the shelf.

Natalie Crawford works at Dymocks Claremont, WA  

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