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The Milk Makers (Reading Rainbow Book)

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I understand why this was a reading rainbow book. It is a great experiment activity non-fiction book. This book exaplins how milk is processed. Most children most likely think that the milk in the fridge comes from the store. What they may not realize is that it comes from a farm miles away. This book goes into great detail how milk is made, and the makeup of cattle. it also gives brief descriptions of variuos types of cattle and dairy products. The illustrations use labels and bright colors. I think this is a good non-fiction book for children. It is in a language that they understand and it is easily read. The book is also very accurate as are all, her books. Gibbons was raised on a dairy farm and has made numerous trips to the dairy farm.
In close this is a good book for children, especially for a science unit. I would have this in my classroom library for childen to perhaps complete a report about milk or other products. Gibbons has a great series on the way variuos things are made.

We took this book out from our local library and found it to be so good we are buying it! My husbands family were dairy farmers and we try to educate our daughters about dairy farming as much as possible. This book give enough educational detail about cows and milk production to be informative for a young child and encourage discussion about cows and the process of milk production. I recommend this book to anyone with a young child interested in cows, milk or farming.

This book is highly enjoyable and informative for children, and I think that every child with an interest in farming would be happy to own a copy. I strongly recommend this book to parents everywhere!

"The Milk Makers" is a Moo-masterpiece when it comes to educational value it scores big! The illustrations are simple the text is clear for even young toddlers and lets face it adults are sure to learn something new as well. I picked this book up after I found out how well it described the milk process cause as far as my daughter is concerned sure she knows she drinks "cows milk" but the process in which it goes through from the cow to the supermarket is huge and she was purely in the dark about it. This book is sure to be a crowd pleaser for inquisitive little minds!

This is a great book for kids - it is interesting, informational, and fun!

My 2.2 years old daughter really loves this book. It's entertaining and educating.
Sometimes she will pick it up and "pretend" to read it (she would just cite what I read to her). She knows what other animals also give milk and she will say she loves eating yogurt which is made from milk too.

Good teaching book. It's like going on a school field trip to a dairy farm. Very explicit and detailed. The book teaches children and adults as well, how the anatomy and digestive system of a cow is different from that of a human. My favorite part is at the end of the book where the author presents a visual chart of milk and other dairy products. The illustrations are awesome and very detailed also. It is a seasonal routine demonstrating the process of where milk comes from, how it becomes milk and how the milk is extracted. It was very interesting to find out what other animals were milk makers.

Jennifer Dunagan,author of
Auntie Jennie's Puppy:The Adventures
of Santana and Santana's Harrowing Halloween

this was such a great story for our kids to read - we live near a dairy farm and this book gave them a lot of insight into the real working of a dairy farm - it answered a lot of their questions and ours too! We love this book!