Let's Go Visiting: Practice Counting with Colorful Farm Baby Animals for Children

by Sue Williams, Julie Vivas (Illustrator)

From the creators of the bestselling favorite I Went Walking comes a colorful farmyard adventure brightened by lively baby animals and lots of counting fun. Let's go visiting and see who's ready to play--one foal, two calves, three kittens, four piglets, five ducklings, and six puppies! And once we've stomped in the mud with the piglets and swum in the lake with the ducklings, let's curl up with this adorable menagerie and take an afternoon nap. This adventure-filled cumulative counting book will help youngsters practice their counting skills while they learn to identify their favorite animal babies--a visit every child will remember.

Genres: Picture Books, Animals, Childrens, Storytime, Number, Counting, Fiction

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

A cute story that mixes counting, colours, and barnyard animals together into a quick story. The narrator travels around the barn, looking to play with various animals. After much frolicking, everyone is ready to collapse in the hay. Neo likes the story, but is not sure he wants to sleep next to a pig. "A little too smelly, Dad!"

[Deb · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm not sure why I don't love this one. It's okay. The illustrations are cute. The counting is simple. Maybe it's a mood thing.

[Taylor · Rating 3 out of 5]

While reading this can get very repetitive, it is wonderful for making animal noises, identifying colors and farm animals, and a good one for an early read-along. Julie Vivas is an excellent artist and her pictures have lots to look at. I am particularly fond of the duck on the "six yellow puppies" page that is clearly body slamming one poor terrified puppy. If it weren't for the antics of the kamikaze duck, the many, many readings of this book might have driven me crazy ages ago.

[Sydney · Rating 4 out of 5]

Genre: Fiction
Grade Level: Lower Elementary (K-1)

I think this was a great book for young children because it includes the concepts of counting, colors, and animals. In addition, it rhymes! There are two sentences that are repeating throughout the story so I think it would be a good book to have students help you read. The illustrations were filled with energy and humor and I really liked how they hinted at what animals would be introduced on the next page. Overall, I would give this book 4 stars.

[Lara Bate · Rating 5 out of 5]

Let's go visiting is a simple story of a child at a farm. It begins by the child asking the dog: Let's go visiting. What do you say? The next page then says "One brown foal is ready to play". The story continues on with this counting pattern with other animals until she gets to six yellow puppies. A great counting book.

[Steve · Rating 5 out of 5]

She initially refused to let me read the book, but then in a moment of boredom, she let me tread it to her twice.

I'm always a bit concerned that raising her as a vegan child, the farm animal books would be a challenge. But this one is pretty awesome and celebrates animals.

[Tabitha Vanover · Rating 3 out of 5]

Its a nice book. It talks about baby animals which is a great way to teach children about baby animals. You could also use this book to teach children about farm animals, because most of the animals in this book live on a farm.

[Andrés · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like the concept of "going visiting," because I think that verb (and activity) is receding into history. But this book keeps it alive with a trip to the farm and counting to six. Solid repeating rhyme and structure.

[Luisa Knight · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's cute, but a bit similar to its predecessor "Let's Go Walking." This one does have a few different animals and you count to six ... and some kids do love repetition.

Ages: 1 - 4

[Cathy · Rating 5 out of 5]

For five year old son’s speech therapy homework to ask a variety of who, what, where, why type of questions and to increase theory of mind.

[Kerry · Rating 5 out of 5]

We loved the farm animal illustrations.

[Denise · Rating 3 out of 5]

A counting book with adorable baby animals.

[Pam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Connected to I Went Walking. This time the child goes and sees the baby animals on the farm.
Repetitive text for young readers.

[Michelle Glenn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book has soft rhyming content and counting. Graphics are a bit drab, but book contains new vocabulary to introduce to young readers.

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun counting and repetition book. Perfect for early readers!

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very simple repetitive text is accompanied by exuberant illustrations of a child visiting and counting the various farm animals.

[Arabella Dunbar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Follow up to my fave book isn’t as engaging

[Jack Kirby and the X-man · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lovely counting book, which incorporates the counting as part of the story (which I love).

This is a repetitive book, but X-man loves the repetition, and it is not as irritating as many children's books!

Julie Vivas's illustrations are wonderful, but at times I feel they are a little soft compared with the frivolity of the story.

[Tyrone Hardy · Rating 4 out of 5]

“Lets Go Visiting,” by Sue Williams and illustrated by Julie Vivas, would be absolutely perfect for kindergartners. The book is about, that may be a girl or boy, and the child going on a visit to play with the animals on the farm. This book provides rhyming, counting, exploring oppurtunites for kindergartners. This book have great artwork, and can be used as a math and science introduction piece, because of the animals, and keeping track of them.

[Russell · Rating 3 out of 5]

An idyllic time romping around with farmyard friends on the surface, but some of the faces depict that not everyone's having the same level of fun. The kittens, in particular, quickly vanish from the roaming pack for a while. I theorize that they had escaped to the safety of the farm with the cow, only to be discovered when the rowdy bunch finally settles down for a nap.

Whatever, those kittens look like jerks anyway.

[Jerriev]

This counting book counts baby animals. It's an adventure visiting all of the animals.

The book is written in both Spanish and English and would be good for ELL students to learn English while seeing both their native Spanish and also in English. This would also be good to be used in a classroom if students are learning basic Spanish.

[SARAH · Rating 2 out of 5]

Let's go visiting. What do you say? One brown foal is ready to play. Lets's go visiting. What do you say? Two red calves are ready to play...Three black kittens...Four pink piglets...Five green ducks...Six yellow puppies...No more visiting. No more play. Let's curl up and sleep in the hay.

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

24 months - we are a bit beyond this book at this point but it is a cute counting book of animals. Would be a good signing book for numbers and animals as well. Of course there are many books that do similar so I wouldn't say this one really stands out.

[DaNette · Rating 5 out of 5]

LOVE the illustrations, fun easy read for learning animals and counting to five. A bedtime favorite at our house.

[Ellen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book to share with babies and toddlers

[Elke Ursin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is surprisingly good! I thought it read really well and baby really enjoyed it.

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful illustrations with simple text.

[Shelley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wonderful ones 4/4/2014

[Theresa · Rating 3 out of 5]

let's go visiting by sue williams is an early reader, read aloud kindergarten, sequence of events

[Kelsey Ruggirello · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a cute book about a little girl visiting animals