Mi tractor

Starred review from April 26, 2024

Toddler-PreS-Each page of Mi tractor illustrates the farmer's daily tasks and provides two rhyming lines in Spanish that build on each other as the story progresses. Well-cultivated fields beautifully demonstrate a variety of growing plants and occasionally include a hidden rabbit or two feeding on vegetables, or a flock of birds pecking at seeds that are worth discovering! The farmer picks up hay bales, a vaca pinta, two donkeys, three pigs, four white sheep, five hens, and these are playfully piled on to the tractor's cart when a country road journey takes this precious cargo to the farmer's home. Animals moo, bray, and cluck through green pastures and snowy fields and the tractor's noises-"�Clonc, clonc, clanc, clanc, piii!"-accompany their loud hubbub. Both animals and farmer announce "�Qu� trabajo tengo hoy!" and a stone in the road causes a commotion, but all's well at the end of this story as each farm animal makes its way to the barn. The onomatopoeia would make this perfect of story time; the vibrant illustrations are reminiscent of Byron Barton's artwork. Each farm vehicle is featured in the "behind the scenes" spread along with the produce found in the fields. A separate page is dedicated to the chorus of singers accompanying Mauricio's "Mi tractor," complete with score. VERDICT This delightful board book will draw the young readers into a farmer's colorful world.-Sharon Sherman

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