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My Father's Farm

23/6/2015

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Author : Emila Yusof
Illustrator : Emila Yusof

Publisher's Review - By Peter Duke

My Father's Farm by Emila Yusof, third children's picture book in the Dina series published by Oyez!Books
Dina is back! This time she is helping her father in his farm. We have seen a very sweet Dina dreaming of butterflies in her mother’s garden. We saw her watching her mother very carefully as she cooked in her kitchen.

My Mother's Garden, Emila Yusof, Children's Picture Book
My Mother's Kitchen, Emila Yusof, Children's Picture Book
But this time we see a more purposeful Dina determined to help her father with his chores around the farm whilst enjoying herself at the same time.

One of the more endearing features of Emila’s illustrations of Dina is the way in which she captures typical expressions and behaviours of a young girl. It is almost as if Dina is real. The feature of this book which differentiates it from the two previous Dina adventures, is the presence of animals which children love; rabbits, chicken, cows, sheep, a cat and ducks among others.
 
The story starts with a happy Dina flying a paper aeroplane while sitting on the fence of her father’s farm surrounded by animals.
My Father's Farm by Emila Yusof, third children's picture book in the Dina series published by Oyez!Books
Later we see her helping her father milk a cow with a happy smile on her face. 
Milking a cow - My Father's Farm by Emila Yusof, third children's picture book in the Dina series published by Oyez!Books
What a look of admiration as she gazes at her father with a hammer in her hand as she helps him build a new chicken coop.
Building a chicken coop - My Father's Farm by Emila Yusof, third children's picture book in the Dina series published by Oyez!Books
Oh no, look at her face as she is chased by geese, she looks really upset and frightened.
Chased by geese - My Father's Farm by Emila Yusof, third children's picture book in the Dina series published by Oyez!Books
All is right later when she jumps into the pond to cool down with a broad happy smile on her face.
Jumping into the pond -My Father's Farm by Emila Yusof, third children's picture book in the Dina series published by Oyez!Books
Then finally, after all that effort, we see  Dina waving happily to her mum as she brings out the picnic for lunch.
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As in her previous two Dina adventures, Emila provides the reader with a few pages of what you might expect to find on a farm, the animals,  the tools, the wheel barrow and buckets.

We hope there will be another Dina book towards the end of the year. Watch out for the announcement.

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1 Comment
Williams
22/6/2015 05:35:51 am

Well done Emila, this is possibly the best Dina yet, plenty of movement great facial expressions and lots of fun.

Bill

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