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Summary: My favorite children's book
Review: Afriend sent me this book as a baby gift. The story is told like a rhythmic poem - I find myself reading it to my son very softly. He loved this book from infancy. And my 2 year old loves it too. The illustrations are beautiful, charming but not babyish. My mother read me every Dr. Suess book there was when I was a child, but I had never heard of this book. It is a gem that I never get tired of reading to my kids.
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Summary: One of the greats
Review: I'm constantly amazed at how difficult it is to find good books for my 2-year old. Well, this book is excellent. It has cute animals, excellent text with a really good meter, beautiful drawings, and an adorable rural setting. Your toddler can moo and meow along with the animals.
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Summary: day in the life of the animals
Review: Wonderful story of small but impt events going on in the barn. the different animals travelling out to the field playing with each other then back to the barn at the end of the day. a real sense of family and closeness among the farm animals.i have read this story over and over and over to my little boy
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Summary: Wonderful book!
Review: This was one of my kids' favorite books as preschoolers! It goes through the day in the life of farm animals wiht wonderful illustrations that lend themselves to "can you find the......." games as you read. I will be keeping this book for the grandbabies I hope to have one day!
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Summary: Great book full of animals
Review: I purchased this book for my new, and first, baby. As an eager mother to be wishing to encourage books right from the start, I bought all the "popular" titles, as well as trying this book and several others. I have found that this is the favorite book of my daughter who loves to look at the barn animals hear all the animals sounds that go with it - it is a great choice! Also loved "The Mitten"!
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Summary: Mother from Menlo Park, CA
Review: From the author of Goodnite Moon, the Big Red Barn is a terrific book for babies through preschoolers. It is a wonderful story of donkeys and cows and geese and goats living in a Big Red Barn. Creative rhymes and pleasant illustrations make this a favorite choice of my toddler.
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Summary: Big Red Barn - A Classic
Review: This is a wonderful book - we love this book! The rhymes flow gently along and the story is warm and homey.
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: I cannot recommend this book enough. My two year loves it. She wants me read it to her every day before bedtime.
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Summary: Nice and Sweet and Sleepy
Review: There must be 1,000 kiddie farm books lurking out there, and I bet most of them are bad. *Big Red Barn*, however, is neither "kiddie" nor bad. The book seems to speak to the child; the tone is quiet, and, for once, we get to see farm animals and the farm on a day and night when "the children are away." This is an animal's view of the big red barn and the meadow around it. A deserted child's toy bucket serves the mouse as a place to look around. The corn grows not for the farmer (unmentioned in the tale), but to protect the newborn field mice. The scarecrow is exceptionally cheerful. The animals and their offspring squeal and low and bray and play and eat in the meadow. When darkness come, they wend their way back to the barn and curl up cozily, as the bats, their time come round, fly out of the hayloft. The book works soothing wonders in effacing the farmer and his children, and lets us see a world we normally only imagine. I wager many a parent has fallen alseep with a child while reading this charming book -- everything is so safe, and so calming, as the vibrant colors of the day illustrations give way to those of dusk and night. Bedtime books don't get much better than this.
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Summary: My nephew loves this book
Review: My 18 month old nephew loves pointing out and naming the animals in this book. He has somehow managed to destroy the binding, so when he's ready for the words I may buy him a new copy.
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