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A review by thrifty_librarian
The Farm That Feeds Us: A Year in the Life of an Organic Farm by Nancy Castaldo
3.0
This bright and clean picture book gives elementary aged children an introduction to different farms and what they produce.
Though this is for young children, it is idealized and frankly unrealistic. The modern farm looks nothing like the one pictured here. If the goal is for children to understand that food isn't magic and doesn't just appear at the grocery store, it would be beneficial for them to know, for example, that the meat they eat doesn't come from smiling animals who grazed happily until they died of old age.
This is quite an old-school representation of a farm, with people hand-picking and planting and very few machines. An attempt at balance between attempting to put farms in a positive light and showing the reality of farm work would've served readers better.
Though this is for young children, it is idealized and frankly unrealistic. The modern farm looks nothing like the one pictured here. If the goal is for children to understand that food isn't magic and doesn't just appear at the grocery store, it would be beneficial for them to know, for example, that the meat they eat doesn't come from smiling animals who grazed happily until they died of old age.
This is quite an old-school representation of a farm, with people hand-picking and planting and very few machines. An attempt at balance between attempting to put farms in a positive light and showing the reality of farm work would've served readers better.