Maya the cow, J.D. the piglet, Hilda the sheep, and a dozen more animals all speak directly to the reader, showing off their unique personalities in this wonderful children's book, Our Farm: By the Animals of Farm Sanctuary (Knopf). Art by master watercolorist Robert Rahway Zakanitch and poems by Maya Gottfried provide a portrait that perfectly captures the essence of each Farm Sanctuary resident. Together the poems and paintings add up to a picture of life on the friendliest farm around.

Maya Gottfried based her poems on real animals from Farm Sanctuary, a national farm animal advocacy organization with shelters in New York and California. www.farmsanctuary.org