Big Red Barn (Board Book and Audio Cassette)

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Summary: My son's favorite!
Review: This is the book my four-year-old son wants to hear every night. He loves every kind of farm story, but this is his hands-down favorite. And will wonders never cease, after about a year of nightly readings, I'm not even sick of it (although I can recite it front to back).

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Summary: The Best!
Review: This was my son's favorite book at around age 2. We used it as a night-night book saying good night to all the animals before going to bed. I have a tape of him at age 2 "reading" the book all by himself! The rhythmn and rhyme are beautifully written making it fun for the reader and listener , as well.

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Summary: I thought the book did an excellent job when I did my farm u
Review: The book goes very good when one is doing a farm unit. Eventhou I teach in a farm community there is alot that my students do notsee on the farms of today.

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Summary: Gentle, rhyming text to lull your child to dreamland
Review: This book is a gentle story of animals that live together in a big red barn and their daily activities. The text has a wonderfully flowing rhythm that my 2 year old can recite from memory. This is a wonderful bedtime story!

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Summary: Lulls the little ones to sleep
Review: Margaret Wise Brown has turned prose into poetry with this beautifully-written children's story about a day in the life of animals. The rhythmic text lulls the little ones to sleep, and relaxes the grown ones for the remainder of the evening. Truly enchanting, it is fast becoming this new mother's favorite children's book.

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Summary: Animals play during the day then sleep in the Big Red Barn.
Review: My daughter loves animals and animal sounds. The Big Red Barn is one of her favorite books. This book is quieter than the Sandra Boynton books, and a good choice for cuddling up with at bedtime. After all the animals play in the great green field, the bats fly out of the barn, and soon the animals are all asleep in the Big Red Barn--except for the mice playing in the stack of hay.

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Summary: Un libro bueno por leyendo en voz alta
Review: This translation is not the best one I've used but works well for younger crowds. It rhymes on some pages but not all which makes for a somewhat awkward read the first time around. With a little practice, though, the book is wonderful to use in a Spanish language storytime. The story is very simple as are the pictures so it could be used for toddler and preschool age groups. The book would also be good for those just starting to read in Spanish since many of the words are basic and the text is somewhat sparse.

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Summary: Beautiful book of the day on a farm
Review: This beautiful book gently describes all the action on a farm from sunrise to sunset. It tells the story of the various animals on the farm. The illustrations are adorable and the words gentle and soothing. It is good exposure to animals and their noises. I have the Spanish, board book edition. It has withstood lots of abuse and it still one of our favorites.

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Summary: This is the favorite right now
Review: Of course, favorite changes every few days with little kids. It's wonderfully illustrated; very realistic representations of various farm animals. The rhyme is classic Wise, too; the rhymes are random and sometimes have couplets, sometimes four lines together, etc. I like to point out, or have the kids point out, the animals, practice the noises the animals make, and try to find the butterfly on every page (it's not there, though, on every page...). I like that even bats are represented kindly (not demonized), and that the animals are so distinct from each other (there aren't 4 duplicate dogs). I really like how the rhyme winds down at the end. It really helps as a last or maybe next-to-last nighttime book.
It's a well done book with great illustrations. If my copy were to burn up today in some odd spontaneous combustion, I'd probably buy another copy.
Get one as a gift for a new mom or buy it for your own kids.

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Summary: Doesn't do it for us
Review: Just a basic farm book like many others. Doesn't really do it for my kids. We own a lot of board books and none of mine ever attached to this one. They prefer Boynton books.