Barn Cat
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (853 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316761133 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 32 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
amy0"Four Stars" according to amy021Four Stars amy0214 very cute book. This was one of my daughters favorites.. . very cute book. This was one of my daughters favorites.. 1Four Stars amy0214 very cute book. This was one of my daughters favorites.. said Four Stars. very cute book. This was one of my daughters favorites.. good text and great art This is a counting book (1-10) with rhyming text. Azarian's illustrations are fantastic. Children familiar with a rural setting will quickly identify with this book, and all children will enjoy this beautiful book.. A delightful book A Customer This is a perfectly charming book, delightfully rhymed and beautifully illustrated with woodcuts that reach the level of art. I ordered a copy for my grandchildren on the basis of Mary Azarian's Caldecott Medal last year, and on receiving it immediately ordered another for the inner-city pre-school program where I volunteer. The dir
Barn Cat pays no attention to the parade of crickets, swallows, puppies, and butter flies as they pass from 1 to 10. What could she be looking for? Young readers will delight in the up-close hand-colored woodcuts that give a cat's-eye view of the world.
Young readers will love counting the creatures in the bold, hand-colored woodcuts, which illustrator Mary Azarian created with a 19th-century hand press. These distractions would seem compelling enough to a regular cat, but, for some reason, not to barn cat. Readers are presented with a cat's-eye view of 1 green grasshopper, 2 brown crickets, 3 black-and-orange butterflies, all the way up to 10 sparrows. And there's plenty to admire in the large, striped barn cat, whose careful expressions are clearly the work of an avid cat observer. A heartwarming, humoro