Biscuit's Day at the Farm: A Sweet Farm Story About Friendship and New Friends for Children (Ages 4–8)

Biscuit

by Alyssa Satin Capucilli, Pat Schories (Illustrator)

For fans of Clifford and Spot, welcome everybody’s favorite little yellow puppy, Biscuit, in an I Can Read adventure! Woof, woof! Come along, Biscuit! Join Biscuit at the farm. Biscuit is going to help out on the farm today and can’t wait to feed all of the farm animals. He makes friends with the hens, the geese, and even an eager little piglet who wants to follow him everywhere!   Biscuit’s Day at the Farm, a My First I Can Read book, is carefully crafted using basic language, word repetition, sight words, and sweet illustrations—which means it's perfect for shared reading with emergent readers.

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Animals, Dogs, Fiction, Own, Kids

32 pages, Paperback

First published March 27, 2007

About the author

Alyssa Satin Capucilli was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1957. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and pursued her interest in dance, becoming a professional dancer and dance instructor. Though Capucilli had written stories, poems, and even puppet shows as a child, she didn't consider a career as a writer until after her own two children were born. To this day she sees herself as both a dancer and a writer, and the two professions complement each other nicely: dancing is, in her words, “telling stories in another way,” and readers of her children's books can attest to the rhythm of her language. Since 1994, she has written more than 15 books for children, and her work has been translated into French, Hebrew, Afrikaans, Greek, and Bulgarian.

Capucilli lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, with her husband and children. They have a chocolate Labrador retriever named Huckleberry, who likes to watch the author at work.

Reviews

[L. McCoy · Rating 5 out of 5]

SUPER FAST REVIEW:
So darn cute!
This one has a lot of cute animals. The story is nice, the artwork is wonderful, the situations are very humorous (laughed all throughout this book) and it’s sometimes surprisingly unpredictable.
I don’t give a shit how old I am, I love these books.


5/5

[Harlow · Rating 5 out of 5]

Woof woof!

[Steven R. McEvoy · Rating 4 out of 5]

My youngest daughters favorite books currently.

[What April's Reading · Rating 5 out of 5]

Biscuit is such a fun puppy!

[McKenna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Summary:
Biscuit and his best friend are feeding all the animals on the farm, but one tricky pig keeps getting out of the pin! When the geese scare them out of the gate, the piglet ends up back in the pin where he belongs. The two unlikely friends come together on this fun day at the farm!

Evaluation:
This is a cute story that would be fun for students to read along with the teacher. I enjoyed reading through to see what all the piglet gets in to. The pictures throughout the book also help the reader to follow along with the story.

Teaching Idea:
This book would be useful in teaching animals and animal sounds to beginning readers. Students can use the pictures to match the animal to the words and mimic their animal sounds!

[Stephanie K. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Biscuit has a fun day at the farm. He help feeds the hens, pigs, goats, sheep, & the geese. Biscuit was a little afraid but some of the farm animals wanted to play. Biscuit finds himself being a friendly animal to the farm animals.

Lesson Plan: draw conclusion: list other farm animals that Biscuit can help feed

[Ali Book&Seaglasshunter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute for early readers. Biscuit and his friend spend a day helping the farmer and feeding various animals. Put a determined piglet keeps escaping and following them. Classically adorable illustrations as with all biscuit books. Interesting enough to hold attention for young emerging readers, without being too complex.

[Danielle Robertson Robertson · Rating 5 out of 5]

My 2-year old son found this especially enjoyable after we took a field trip to a farm. He was able to identify and remember petting all the animals in the story. We especially liked the end because neither one of us are fans of the certain animal which chases Biscuit.

[Arely Cortes]

This book was about a dog name Biscuit. He spends a day at the farm. He takes care of some animals with a little girl. They take care of pigs, sheep, goats, and chickens. At the end of the day Biscuit falls asleep with the pigs. It is a good book.

[Barbara Everette · Rating 5 out of 5]

Biscuit helps out on the farm feeding the hens. They go to feed the pigs and the piglet is out. They put the piglet back in its pen and proceed the feeding of other animals and they discover the piglet is out the pen again. They put the piglet up.again and Biscuit was back in the pen too.

[Jesse Baggs · Rating 3 out of 5]

Biscuit and his owner rescue some escaped piglets on a farm. In the reading experience, this feels paternalistic and kind, but of course, we want those piglets saved now so we can devour them later. What a strange, and strangely common, scenario for a children’s book.

[Julia Peterson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty decent book when students are just learning to read. Very colorful and descriptive images/pictures to entice a reader. Simple and repetitive language to grow a reader's confidence. Cute and fun story about a little girl, her puppy, and farm animals!

[Kristina · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book/ book series for beginner readers. The stories are very simple and easy to follow along with. The stories are not long at all and will keep a child's attention. These are also AR books for anyone who might want to know. I would recommend these books to others.

[Leah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute.

[Cara · Rating 2 out of 5]

Biscuit discovers other animals on the farm.

[Daniel Park · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good book to teach pre-readers. A little on the more difficult end of the spectrum than happy and honey.

[Jami · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book to my Korean students and they really enjoyed the animal noises and the cute little mischievousness Biscuit puts himself in.

[Nichole · Rating 3 out of 5]

Simple, cute early reader book.

[Pamela Powell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Biscuit visits the farm and all the farm animals.

[Andrew · Rating 3 out of 5]

Farms are good to learn about.🐑🐷🐐🐓🐣🐥

[Shelley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Awww this is adorable. Perfect story for a little farm girl or boy, or a beginning reader. I thought it was cute and funny how the little baby pig kept getting out.

[Jecel Cortes · Rating 4 out of 5]

It a good little kids book. I have colorful pictures. Its about a little tiny dog of visits the farm. She find a lot of different animals.

[Payton Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a cute book for young children. It uses basic words, repetition, and shows illustrations that match the text. This is a good book to help children learn to read.

[Lily · Rating 3 out of 5]

Simple and cute

[Lily]

22 woof woof words on 28 pages. Too much.

[Liesel Jo · Rating 1 out of 5]

0 stars, half the words are “woof!, woof!”

[Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

A piggy keeps escaping.

[Aarvik · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice reads!

[Eugenio · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a shared reader book but my new reader daughter loved it. Some good repetition and the cute pictures help to keep her interest.

Looks like Biscuit books will be around a bit longer.

[Ali · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very easy and straightforward story, but the illustrations really add to the text.