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Big Red Barn |  | Author: Margaret Wise Brown
Creator: Felicia Bond
Brand: Harper Collins Publishers
List Price: $7.99
Buy Used: $0.01
as of 7/30/2010 07:40 PDT details
Seller: Books Squared
Rating:  88 reviews
Media: Board book
Reading Level: Baby-Preschool
Pages: 32
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 5 x 0.6
MPN: 9780694006243
ISBN: 0694006246
EAN: 9780694006243
Publication Date: January 6, 1995
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
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. Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor: Margaret Wise BrownAges: 0 to 6Format: 32 pages, paperback ISBN: 9780060207502
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 88
 Beautiful but disappointingly unengaging July 21, 2010
BostonMama (Boston, MA)
I bought this book before my daughter was born, because it was such a cute, classic book for children. It's been around for ages, gets wonderful reviews, is written by the extremely prolific children's author Margaret Wise Brown, and features a toddler favorite-- farm animals! I LOVED how the illustrations shows life at the farm progress from day to night through the lighting-- the sunset page and the night page are just lovely. And I loved that it is a goodnight book, with all the farm animals asleep in the barn by the end.
Now, for the real test: My daughter. At 14 months, has several farm themed board books and, I am sad to say, this one is not her favorite by a long shot. Every time I try to read it to her, she gets bored about three pages in, and this is NOT her reaction to all books. Having watched her reaction to this and other books, these are my conculsions about why this one is not as engaging: (a) The cadence is not that great for a M.W. Brown book. It can read kind of awkwardly. (b) It is short on things like animals sounds and long on references that young toddlers cannot grasp, like references to children who are not there (but usually play there) and a golden weather vein (NO way board book age kids will understand what that is). In terms of learning about animals, pointing them out, and hearing mommy make their sounds, she much prefers other farm books (for example, My First Farm: Let's Get Working! (My First Board Books). In terms of classic toddler fiction books, she much prefers others like Baby Animals or I CAN FLY (Little Golden Book). In terms of board books, anything by Karen Katz is a bigger hit than this.
Before my daughter was born, I probably would have given this 4 stars, because I love it (despite the sometimes slightly awkward language), but I can't give it more than 3 stars, given my daughter's reaction thus far. If she changes her mind, I'll update the review. For the record, this book came up recently and my husband (not really knowing which books are "classics" that my daughter owns and which are not), deemed this book "boring." So, that's two thumbs down in our house against my one.
 Board book is tiny July 10, 2010
Concerned Parent (Pennsylvania, USA)
Charming picture book, lovely story, nice illustrations... but the board book version is TINY. I guess I should have read (and thought about) the dimensions of the book before I bought it! This is one of those picture books that you really need to be able to see the illustrations to really get 'into' the book, in my opinion. The board book version is too small to serve this purpose. Squinting at a tiny cow or horse doesn't really create the best read-aloud experience for me.
Get this book! April 19, 2010
R. Olson
I'm a teacher and a parent of two toddlers. I have TWO copies of this book because they fight over it. I could go on and on about all the educational value there is to this book - but I'm sure someone else already has. Just trust me: this is the best book for babies and toddlers I've ever come across. I love it and best of all my kids love it.
Excellent choice for Pre-Kindergarten classes March 21, 2010
L. M. Jones (BOYNTON BEACH, FL, US)
This book is wonderful. I taught a thematic unit on The Farm and used this as my Big Book for teaching reading stratigies and introducing my unit. The book starts out with an empty field and continues to add farm animals a few at a time into the farm yard. The attention to detail is great and give opportunity to predict and develop the child's attention to detail by including hints to small additions like baby field mice. It finishes with all the animals in the barn sleeping. The children can review the animals who are sleeping in the barn and you can teach other characteristics of the animals throughout the book. I highly recommend this book to anyone who teaches children, including parents because you are your child's first teacher.
 A Very Nice Read-Aloud for Boys and Girls January 15, 2010
Shanna A. Gonzalez (Gaithersburg, MD)
Big Red Barn is one of those baby books that provokes either charm or annoyance in adult readers, and delight in young listeners. It is marked by Brown's soothingly rhythmic, repetitive text, sprinkled with farmyard animal noises that toddlers will love to imitate. The story opens with "a pink pig/ who was learning to squeal" greeting the sunrise. Other farm animals go about their activities throughout the day, and (just as in Goodnight Moon) the pictures become progressively darker as night falls on the barn.
This classic board book is brightly illustrated, interactive and soothing. It's a good fit for both preverbal toddlers and children who are just beginning to understand how story events progress in sequence. It's a very nice choice for both boys and girls.
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