I don't understand how this hasn't become a classic New York book for kids.

This is one that I definitely liked better as a child than I do now, but it still holds up pretty well.

From the author-illustrator team that gave us Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs comes this twist on the classic "Old MacDonald had a farm" two-step. Rather than go through all the animals on MacDonald's farm, it is far more amusing to watch him turn a city apartment building into a garden and live stock pen. This comes at the cost of tentants and almost Old MacDonald's job, but lucky for him, vegetables can pay rent too. This is so adorable, and the illustrations top-notch.

Cute story about an apartment super who turns the apartment building into a farm.

An Absolute Must read book that does an outrageously creative and inventive take on Old MacDonald had A Farm. Old MacDonald Had an Apartment House was gifted to me as a child and I have loved it ever since. It is perfectly written and wonderfully illustrated by husband and wife team Judi and Ron Barrett. The illustrations in this book are what brought this fabulous story to life. I will never tire of reading and sharing this wonderful story with others.

*For three years prior to the pandemic I was a volunteer for a wonderful reading program where I helping several students in elementary school with their reading skills. This program lasted from August through September. These wonderful students made such incredible strides with their reading I was amazed and so proud of each and every one of them. This book was one that I got share with them and it was a huge hit. One of the young girls I read with who started off as painfully shy and not wanting to read at all, ending up being able to read this book cover to cover twice. It was an Awesome Moment!!

While searching for farm animal books, I stumbled upon this title I had never heard of. I loved Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs as a kid, but never knew about this book, so I was excited to check it out. It's silly and unbelievable, just like Cloudy, but seems a bit more plausible. I admit, I felt a little bad for the tenants who were all but forced out of the building, but it was still fun to see Old MacDonald's unconventional farm come to life. The art style really works here, as the fruits and vegetables are the only (growing) splashes of color.

I also had to laugh at all the pipes and cigars being smoked in this book...that's the 60s for you! ;-D

Very cute and urban version of an old classic.

Cute story about Old MacDonald as the Super of an apartment building. As his tenants move out, he uses their old apartments to plant vegetables. Great use of imagination as the carrots grow down through the ceiling of the apartment below, etc…