On the Farm
Part of the Paws, Fins, Feathers, Claws series
- Subject
- Animals - Farm Animals
- Age
- 3-5 years
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press (MA)
- Size
- 23.9 cm × 27.2 cm
- ISBN
- 9780763655914
From the bull to the barn cat to the wild bunny, the farmyard bustles with life. The rooster crows, the rams clash, the bees buzz, and over there in the garden, a snake — silent and alone — winds and watches. David Elliott’s graceful, simple verse and Holly Meade’s exquisite woodcut and watercolor illustrations capture a world that is at once timeless yet disappearing from view — the world of the family farm.
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What reviewers said
From an alluring cover with a rooster in full crow to its concluding, gently ironic ode to the silence of rabbits, this book will make an unusually interesting choice for farm-animal storytimes.
Handsome…From toddlers to the youngest poets, children will delight in the fun and beauty on display here.
Meade’s beautiful, color woodblock prints that superbly reflect the mood and action in the poetry.
Energetic woodcuts accompany playfully simple poems as they give young readers an engaging tour of the barnyard…a worthwhile addition.
[The text is] pithy and crisply rhymed, making for easy reading and listening…Meade’s watercolored woodblock illustrations are elegant yet homely, cheerfully depicting the unpolished charm of a well-filled pigpen.
Like the vibrant rooster on this oversize book's jacket, Meade's colored woodcut prints are so bold they seem to crow at the reader.
“This handsome poetry collection feels as hearty and comforting as a bowl of sugared porridge. . . . Children will delight in the fun and beauty.”
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