Milk: From Cow to Carton (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Book)

More information than I expected. Covers the cows 4 stomachs... all the steps in processing milk... briefly touches on cheese making. More like a book for age 6+ (not for preschoolers like I needed). If I just read the first part though on cows making milk, maybe it would work, but my son always wants to read the entire book.... and if its boring he gets really disappointed and is done reading for a long time so I guess I will not use this until he is much older.

The Let's Read and Find Out Series is on of our favorites. I bought this book recommended by Memoria Press Science Enrichment Curriculum for home schooling my five year old. We are using it along with The Milk Makers by Gail Gibbons. We read these books and then visited a local dairy farm that has an ice cream parlor on the farm. That ice cream parlor is very busy and it is fun to buy your ice cream cone and eat it in the picnic area outside. The dairy cows come right up to the fence and visit the customers as we are enjoying our ice cream.

Love this book! Goes right along with the Mobile Diary presentation we see every year. Kids love it!

my 4 year old daughter was asking me where milk comes from and I wanted to show her the whole process, including getting across the idea that cows make milk primarily to feed their calves (just like people do), I was surprised that most other resources didn't mention that fact. Great illustrations and complete but not overly detailed text. We had fun reading it.

Before I made butter from heavy cream with my 3 year old preschoolers I wanted to teach them about where milk comes from. This book presents the material in a very straightforward manner. It also goes beyond the 3 year old level in talking about pasteurization, so I would say it is very useful for ages 3 - 7. It is nicely illustrated and clearly written.

I ordered this book to use as a read-aloud for my kindergarten students. It was a little above their level so I used the information within the book to make a powerpoint presentation that they could easily understand. I will use it in the future with my older students.

The book is a marvelous tool for teaching kids just how milk is processed from cow to frig. My granddaughters had a thing or two to teach their parents! I would recommend this book. Even my 3 year old granddaughter talked about it days later, remembering many of the new words she had learned.

This is a very good expository text. I used this book along with our basal reader Supermarket (can't remember the author) which is another expository text. Very informative!! You will be surprised what your students know and don't know about milk!! Great read!!

La idea del libro es fantástica, lo que pasa es que la historia es tan detallada (se describe incluso el proceso de digestión de una vaca y sus cuatro estómagos o el proceso de pasteurización) que resulta demasiado complicada para un niño de menos de cuatro años.Estoy segura de que cuando crezca se le podrá sacar todo el partido que ofrece.Los dibujos son detallados y realistas.Seguro que es de gran interés para niños con curiosidad por saber cómo funcionan las cosas.

So informative on the whole process of milk from cow to carton in a easy to understand way. Factual but with a story like style. Also mentions milk comes from goats and sheep too as well as products that are made from milk. Tells you how to make your own simple butter at home.

Very nicely written book. My 5 yr old is enjoying it

My daughter loved it.

Great book for our milk topic