Big Red Barn Hardcover - 1989
by Brown, Margaret Wise
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
"Brown's melodic text is beguiling, while its subject--the big red barn that houses a menagerie of animals and their offspring--will have instant appeal to young children. Bond's newly added drawings have a simplicity that suits the story (about the cycle of a day on a farm). A welcome reprise".--Booklist. Full-color illustrations.
Description
Details
- Title Big Red Barn
- Author Brown, Margaret Wise
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Revised
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 32
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins, New York
- Date 1989
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0060207485I5N11
- ISBN 9780060207489 / 0060207485
- Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 10.02 x 8.46 x 0.36 in (25.45 x 21.49 x 0.91 cm)
- Ages 04 to 08 years
- Grade levels P - 3
- Reading level 490
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Themes
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Library of Congress subjects Stories in rhyme, Farms
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 85045814
- Dewey Decimal Code E
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First line
From the rear cover
By the big red barn
In the great green field,
There was a pink pig
Who was learning to squeal.
There were horses and sheep and goats and geese -- and a jaunty old scarecrow leaning on his hoe. And they all lived together by the big red barn. In joyous and exuberant
Pictures, Felicia Bond lovingly evokes Margaret Wise Brown's simple, rhythmic text about the cycle of a day on a farm, where a family of animals peacefully plays and sleeps.
There were horses and sheep and goats and geese -- and a jaunty old scarecrow leaning on his hoe. And they all lived together by the big red barn. In joyous and exuberant pictures, Felicia Bond lovingly evokes Margarett Wise Brown's simple, rhythmic text about the cycle of a day on a farm, where a family of animals peacefully plays and sleeps.
"Brown's melodic text is beguiling, while its subject'the big red barn that houses a menagerie of animals and their offspring'will have instant appeal to young children. Bond's newly added drawings have a simplicity that suits the story [about the cycle of a day on a farm]. A welcome reprise." 'BL.
