{"id":22547,"date":"2014-02-12T22:57:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T02:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=22547"},"modified":"2014-02-12T22:57:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T02:57:19","slug":"review-of-old-mikamba-had-a-farm-by-rachel-isadora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=22547","title":{"rendered":"Review of Old Mikamba Had a Farm, by Rachel Isadora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/old_mikamba_had_a_farm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/old_mikamba_had_a_farm.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"old_mikamba_had_a_farm\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/old_mikamba_had_a_farm.jpg 160w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/old_mikamba_had_a_farm-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a><em>Old Mikamba Had a Farm<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Rachel Isadora<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Paulsen Books (Penguin), 2013.  36 pages.<\/p>\n<p>Old Mikamba indeed has a farm \u2013 a game farm on the plains of Africa.  The format is the same as singing about Old MacDonald\u2019s farm, but the animals are quite different.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a baboon, with an Ooh-ha-ha.  There\u2019s an elephant, with a Baraaa-baraaa.  There\u2019s a dassie, with a trill-trill. There\u2019s a warthog, with a Snort-snort.   And finally, there\u2019s a lion, with a Roar-roar.  Altogether, fourteen African animals are featured with lovely mostly collage illustrations.<\/p>\n<p>A page at the back tells a paragraph more about each of the animals.<\/p>\n<p>This is a lovely twist on a familiar song that is sure to be a hit at Storytime.  If fourteen verses gets long, you can always skip some pages, but be sure to always finish off with the lion!  And you thought you knew what farm animals were!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.com\/youngreaders\">penguin.com\/youngreaders<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0399257403\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/old_mikamba_had_a_farm.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/old_mikamba_had_a_farm.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Source: This review is based on a library book from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but I maintain my website and blogs on my own time.  The views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Mikamba Had a Farm by Rachel Isadora Nancy Paulsen Books (Penguin), 2013. 36 pages. Old Mikamba indeed has a farm \u2013 a game farm on the plains of Africa. The format is the same as singing about Old MacDonald\u2019s farm, but the animals are quite different. There\u2019s a baboon, with an Ooh-ha-ha. 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