First or second grade level, silly story, some farm vocabulary, Skills that you can teach from this book are: Fact or Fiction, Fantasy/Reality/Possible/Impossible, Predictions, Story order, Rhyming words, spelling patterns such as -ow, -own, -ou-, -etter, -ed, -ee- Characters, setting, Problem, Solution, Cause and Effect, Writing evidence-based reasons as causes for actions, Determining a chain of events, Reimagining the story with altered events, an idea for small plays or using stuffed toys to re-enact/re-tell it