Busy Farm Counting Book

Having greatly enjoyed 'Getting Up with Dog' (US title: 'Can You Do What Dog Can Do?'), our 15-month old daughter adored 'Busy Farm'. Though in essence a counting book, such a description does not do it justice; it is a beautifully thought-out and constructed piece of paper engineering that will captivate small children and their carers. The book comprises four double-page openings, each with a number of moving tabs. Its great additional feature is that the book comes with a ribbon, with which you can tie the covers together back to back, making a wonderful play farm which stands up. As always with Jo Lodge, the drawings are bold, stylistically simple and colourful, and the pop-ups are among the best I've seen. They work well and help to make the book a magically engaging work.