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Otis and the farm animals struggle with the sour-faced scarecrow that's added to the farm, but when a big rainstorm hits they resolve to keep him company.Not my favorite Otis story. It felt like all the characters were projecting their feelings onto the scarecrow when the scarecrow was just doing its job. The bold move to sit with the scarecrow and keep him company while the rain fell a little flat for me and the cozy ending was just a little too saccharine for my tastes.Gouache and pencil artwo...
Otis and his friends don't know what to make of the new scarecrow who stands in the pumpkin patch through all the seasons, silent, still and with a grimace on his face while they go about their business on the farm. With a sly twist of humor and an act of kindness one could image a friendship beginning, but the ending falls a bit flat and young audiences will most likely not see a strong message of reaching out to include other from this tale.
I like Loren Long’s Otis series because of it feel so American to me. Does that make sense? It has tradition and values. This one, though, fell flat to me. At least, the way they handled the scarecrow’s expression at the end was interesting. The illustrations remain pleasant to look at!
Good message, but way too long for even a preschool storytime.
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 0.5A cute little story about a tractor named Otis who just wants to befriend the new scarecrow on the farm.
I love this sweet book. Otis the tractor was friends with all of the animals on the farm-dogs, pigs, horses, bulls, ducks, geese, etc. In this warm and friendly story, the farmer brings in a scarecrow to sit in the corn field and scare away the crows. He wears tattered clothes and has a permanent scowl sewn on his face. Otis and the animals try to befriend him but the scarecrow just looks off into the field, continues frowning, and doesn't speak to them. As the summer turns to fall, Otis works h...
Part of a series about a sentient tractor named Otis. Read this one for the "crossing the cornfield" part of my road narrative project.http://pussreboots.com/blog/2018/comm...
Two stars for the story: yes, how noble to befriend an unsmiling, 'lonely' scarecrow, but can we call it friendship when it's only one sided? Maybe the scarecrow LIkes to be alone - this story makes it seem like being alone is a bad thing.Four stars for the interpretive illustrations: the faces, the expressions, the way the objects on the edge of each page imply the fields go on and on and on!
The thing is, Otis is a tractor and he's sentient, so I went through the entire book not sure if the Scarecrow was just stoic or not sentient at all. But maybe that's part of the mystery of the story. They did introduce the "quiet game" though, hah.
I love the Otis book series. This book though lack the feelings I experienced from other books.
Otis the tractor, and the animals on the farm, noticed when the farmer put a scarecrow in the cornfield one day. The scarecrow wouldn't speak to anyone all summer. One rainy day after harvest Otis felt sorry for the scarecrow still standing alone and with no friends, so decided to do something about it. Cute story and great illustrations.
The latest entry in the Otis the tractor series pushes the theme of inclusion and friendship a little too far with Otis trying to include the totally non-responsive scarecrow in his circle of farm friends. It feels a bit too didactic.
This one was okay. Beautiful as usual but it felt too far a stretch to make the story happen. There were elements of The Rabbit Listened - accepting those who are quiet. But, it didn’t hit that same sweet note.
The kids love Otis and Colin thought the quiet game was hilarious.
A sweet book about empathy, but the scowling scarecrow was a little too spooky for Berry this time.
When the farmer decides to bring a scarecrow to the farm for the harvesting period, Otis and the animals find he does not fit in. He is not friendly or engage with them, but chooses to plaster a sour look on his face all day long. As atuumn creeps in and everyone is busy, that scarecrow continues to stare from its perch, not saying a word. One day, with the rains pelting down, Otis decides to join the scarecrow and make friends once and for all. Soon the other animals join him and even if the sc...
When I picked this book up in the library, I didn't realize it was part of a series. I was going solely on name recognition (I've read some other books illustrated by Loren Long).Otis and the Scarecrow is okay, if you like books about anthropomorphized machinery. I find it kind of weird in this case, as the tractor has all kinds of animal friends. (For whatever reason, I didn't find the concept of equipment with human characteristics nearly as difficult to swallow in Anna Dewdney's Little Excava...
I think this is an odd little story, good, but I think something was missing too. It was strange to have the tractor alive with the animals somehow, but it shouldn't matter. I haven't heard of the Otis the Tractor books, but this is the 5th in the series.Otis is a kind and caring tractor that everyone loves on the farm. I like that about him. [aside: Speaking of kind and caring, it felt amazing to vote for Biden today. I voted!] A scarecrow is brought to the farm and he is all alone in the cornf...
Otis the tractor and his farmyard friends return in this fifth picture-book devoted to their adventures, this time confronting an unfriendly, uncommunicative newcomer on the farm, in the shape of a sour-looking scarecrow. When their initial friendly overtures are ignored, Otis and the animals seemingly ignore the scarecrow, although the tractor watches him from afar. Then one rainy day in autumn, in the middle of playing a game with his friends, Otis comes to a decision. He gets up, goes over to...
