Kid Review - Moving to The Peaceable - picture book

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About the Book

Book: MOVING to The Peaceable

Author: Grami McAdoo (Caryl McAdoo)

Genre: Children’s Animals Picture Book

Release Date: December 22, 2022

Moving can be hard for any age, but the wise old hens might make it easier for the little ones in your life! Follow their journey!

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My Review of Moving to the Peaceable

McAdoo, Grami. Moving to the Peaceable. 2022.

Grami (Caryl) McAdoo has written a children’s book about moving a flock of chickens to her farm. It is really two stories side-by-side throughout the book. The illustrated story with block type is a picture book for children written from the point of view of the chickens, telling what it was like for them to move. Throughout the book are pages in script type that are an autobiographical story about the McAdoo’s adventures while moving the chickens. On the one hand I understand writing the book in this way, but from a child’s standpoint I think it would have been better to have the illustrated story first in the book followed by the autobiographical story in the back of the book – there are too many words on a page to appeal to the youngest of listeners to the story. I did like that the book ended with chicken facts.

Caryl McAddo illustrated the story with photographs. The photographs compliment the story text well.

There is nothing that would keep Moving to the Peaceable from being added to a K-12 Christian school library. It would fit in a picture book section quite nicely.

I received a complimentary copy or Moving to the Peaceable. This is my honest review.

About the Author – Caryl McAdoo

Award-winning, Christian author Caryl McAdoo prays her story brings God glory. Of her best-selling novels, readers love her historical Christian romance family sagas most, but also enjoy their contemporary cousins, Caryl’s Biblical fiction, her new historical mystery series, and tales for young adults and mid-grade booklovers. The majority of reviewers award her stories five-stars and praise Caryl’s writing style and the depth of her characters, feeling as though they get to know them well.

The prolific writer loves singing the new songs God gives her almost as much as penning new novels—hear a few at YouTube! She’s been married to Ron fifty-four years, and they share four children and twenty-four grandsugars. The McAdoos live in the woods south of Clarksville, seat of Red River County in far Northeast Texas, waiting expectantly for God to open the next door.

More from Caryl McAdoo

This is the story of how I became a Chicken Lady from start but not the finish! I have two more “chicken”! books planned based all on the true story! Before we had “backyard birds”—except mine are also front and side yard!—I called our back in the woods twenty acres in Red River County The Peaceable. After the chickens, I added “Farm & Bookery”.

My husband of fifty-five years Ron and I now incubate purebred chicks and raise them to laying age—usually four to five months—then sell them. We both love being around our flock, and the supplemental income is nice as well. They grow so fast; watching them is both so much fun and also relaxing!

I know each hen and rooster by name, and they all are so affectionate! They come running whenever I head out the door (mostly because they want to see if I brought any food! I love thinking about what they are saying to each other with all their clucking and purring and cackling!

This is why the books are partially written from the hens’ point of view as our first animals’ series, The River Bottom Ranch Stories featuring horses and goats and dogs among other wild animal characters. And all those farm animals were real ones that we owned and loved, too—like the chickens!

This series ‘Grami’s Stories for Children’ also has a narrator’s story throughout, and that’s me, Grami McAdoo! I talk to the children through a few pages full of dialogue to teach them about poultry and things of God. In MOVING to the Peaceable, I talk about changes and how they can be scary, but God is always with us wherever we go.

The illustrations are photographs of our real chickens and The Peaceable Farm & Bookery. In the back of the book, there are a few pages of “Chicken Terminology” and fun “Chicken Facts” to teach the little ones more about the wonderful world of chickens!

I pray they will love the story and be blessed by it!