The Cow Pie Chronicles is a super fun book for kids and provides some great lessons on family and how to handle difficult circumstances.
My little guy is six, and although this book is probably best for kids a little older, he is advanced enough that he is really enjoying reading about life on a dairy farm. The situations that the Slinger family encounters is teaching my little guy how other people live and how people face tough circumstances.
Here’s the book description from Amazon: Ten-year-old Tim Slinger and his nine-year-old sister Dana face danger, excitement, and heartbreak in this story of life on a modern family farm. Though Tim (aka Poop Slinger) and “Devil” Dana engage in intense sibling rivalry that gets them both into hilarious situations with barns, ropes, farm animals, city-kid cousins, and each other, they are soon forced to confront unwanted changes when the farm is lost. As they face an alien world in town, Dana readily adapts to a new way of life while Tim resists, sending the siblings down separate but intersecting paths. Although an unexpected encounter puts Tim back into familiar surroundings, will life ever be the same? This fresh and humorous account of modern rural living brings a unique approach to the time-tested theme of families and communities coming together under challenging circumstances.
I would really encourage you to read this book to your kids, or let them read it. Boys especially love the ‘cow pie’ parts. My little guy got a huge kick out of the chapter with the ‘Cow Chip Tossing Contest’.
And I really loved the glossary in the back of the book – it helped my six year old learn some new words!
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