An oversized old fashioned story book with echoes of Mike Mulligan. Otis, an old tractor is replaced by a big shiny new tractor. Left in the barn the farmer’s potential “prize” calf is miserable without Otis. When that little calf falls into a muddy pond there is only one way to get it out. A charming story of friendship with art that pays homage to picture books of an earlier bucolic time and artists such as Virginia Lee Burton and Robert Lawson.  4-8

Age: Preschool, Early School Years. Award Year: 2009. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.