I enjoyed reading this book with my 10-year-old son. Animal Farm would be a fantastic book to generate higher-level thinking, discussion and debate that could support the teaching of Literacy, RE, History, PSHE and Philosophy for Children. The adaption of the story would be a valuable text to study at Primary level as it provides an accessible opening to more mature themes such as authority, equality and inequality, class, power, control and corruption. The abridged version of Animal farm is a thoroughly enjoyable story for children.

It is a brilliant story and very educational.

I would definitely recommend this book to other children my age. It also made me think more carefully about some of the things that are happening at the moment. After reading the story, it made it much easier to understand. This taught me things about history that I did not know. It was interesting to read the ‘Taking Things Further section’ about how the book was written about things that had happened in Russia. Snowball tried to make the farm a better place but his ideas were over-ruled by Napoleon who was a stronger leader. Boxer was hard working and never gave up but his hard work didn’t really help the other animals. I really liked the characters Boxer and Snowball. As the pigs became more like people they started to be more selfish and they did not care about the other animals and the group became less united. It was clever that animals were the main characters in the story not people. The ideas in the story made me think about authority what makes a good leader and whether it is important that the rules are the same for everyone. Will the animals be able to fight them off? Can life on Animal Farm be as wonderful as they had all hoped for – or will new dangers threaten their happiness?Ī young reader's review for Real Reads Animal Farm :Īnimal farm is a really interesting, thought provoking story based on events that have happened in the past. The farmers decide to band together to win back the farm for Mr Jones. But can they run the farm with tools that are designed for humans? Will they be able to harvest the food that they need for the winter? When the animals get rid of Mr Jones and take over the farm, they are excited by their new freedom. All the animals were looking forward to the new, happy lives they would lead when Mr Jones’s rule over them came to an end.

Animal farm story