Deluxe Sticker Book: On the Farm

Joli Hannah, a children’s book author and publisher, started working with international publishers in 2000 to create children’s books, which over time she began writing herself. She is raising three children in a charming house in the countryside, and every night before bedtime, she reads or invents original stories for them. Joli works under a pseudonym, as she wishes her readers to perceive her through her stories and not through her image on social media. She loves life, people, and their stories, and was born and raised in an industrial city in Central Europe.Malgorzata Detner is a Poland-based illustrator born in 1989 who has loved drawing since a young age, influenced by her mother’s paintings. She followed a career in costume design, focusing on Victorian dresses, but returned to traditional painting and digital illustration after her daughter’s birth. She draws vibrantly colored, mysterious, fantastic worlds, animals, and creatures influenced by old animation, and she incorporates hand-painted textures in her digital art and loves creating illustrations that remind her of childhood memories. In her free time, she makes needle-felt toys and watches her favorite movies, including Studio Ghibli’s Totoro. She lives with her family and pets in Warsaw.

"Busy farm life hits with cheerful scenes and lots to do thanks to the multitude of stickers readers can place however they'd like. This is a sticker book with seven, two-page farm scenes. Each one lays out the foundation with the main characters performing farm activities. Then, readers can choose from several hundred stickers and add to each one until its just right. From goat tending to working in the fields, familiar tasks related to farms come to life. The main characters, Kate and Tom, help their family to perform each one with a smile on the face. There are quite a few stickers, meaning there is a broad scope of possibilities as to how readers create their farm scenes. This makes the book great as an activity for road trips or rainy days. The book also tells a story. This flows with a few sentences on each page, which are appropriate for the age group and work nicely as a read-aloud. Each one gives a brief description of the various activities Tom and Kate help out with on the farm. It's simple but enough to raise awareness for all the different things farmers do. " —Tonja R Drecker, Blogger