Farmer Palmer's wagon ride Book

Associate with a 5-year-old if only for the chance to read this delightful book aloud. Steig is an artist with language. The August day was sultry and they "listened to the zizzing-zazzing, chirring-whirring of the heat-charged insects". Later when the summer stormed brewed "Harum-scarum gusts of wind turned the leaves this way and that. Then the rain they had hoped for came, with scattered drops as big as acorns slapping down, followed by a drubbing deluge." William Steig's are "childrens" books. They talk beautifully to (not down to) children. The above-quotes are samples of descriptive language, but the characters are so... human (which is funny in itself considering Farmer Palmer is a pig and his hired hand is a bespectacled oaten-breathed donkey). They are a riot and so fun to give voice to.