The Milk Makers

by Gail Gibbons, Gail Gibbons (Illustrator)

Overview

Fresh and cold, foaming from a carton or bottle, milk is one of nature's most nutritious foods. For this, we must thank the milk makers.
In The Milk Makers, Gail Gibbons begins with the cow, describing its four-stomach method of producing milk, how it is milked on a modern dairy farm, and then how milk is transported to a dairy plant, processed, and loaded onto refrigerated trucks — with other dairy products — for delivery to stores.
Step by step, Gail Gibbons's clear, carefully researched text and crisply colorful pictures tell the wonderful story of milk.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780027366402
Publisher:	Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	03/01/1985
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	600,483
Product dimensions:	10.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	AD770L (what's this?)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Gail Gibbons frequently buys milk at a dairy farm near Corinth, Vermont, where she lives with her husband and two children. She is the author and illustrator of many award-winning books for children, including Trucks, The Post Office Book, and New Road. The Milk Makers is her first book for Atheneum.

Gail Gibbons frequently buys milk at a dairy farm near Corinth, Vermont, where she lives with her husband and two children. She is the author and illustrator of many award-winning books for children, including Trucks, The Post Office Book, and New Road. The Milk Makers is her first book for Atheneum.

Editorial Reviews

The succinct, enjoyable story of where milk comes from. A Reading Rainbow selection. Ages 48. (March)

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