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Summary: My kids love this book!
Review: My 2 1/2-year-old twins love this book. They ask for it every night, and one of them likes to recite it. He's got the whole thing memorized. Just an excellent good-night book for this age group, right up there with Goodnight Moon.
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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: My son's favorite when he was a baby
Review: My son adored this book his entire first year. Eventually he began teething on it, and that destroyed it, but by then I knew it by heart anyway. The words are have a melodic, poetic flow...I think the sound of the words was very soothing to him. The pictures are terrific, and the book feels like it's taking you into the animals' secret world. It is a great book to read at bedtime because it follow the animals through a playful day then watches them retire and go to sleep. Margaret Wise Brown is great; Good Night Moon is of course her big classic. But Big Red Barn is equally good. It is hard to find modern authors with her gift for language.
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Summary: Love this book!
Review: My son loves this book! We've been reading it to him since he was 4-5 months old and he turns 1 next week and he still wants us to read this to him every day. I could probably recite the book word-for-word by memory from reading it so much, but the illustrations are so cute and it makes my son happy, so I will probably never get tired of it. I highly recommend this book!
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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: 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: 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: Soothing words & Simple illustration
Review: These are the things that the little ones, like my 21 month old son, should appreciate in a book.
MWB is widely known for the books "Goodnight moon" and "The Runaway Bunny". I didn't even know about this book until I saw that my husband had picked it up at the bookstore. This book is illustrated by a different artist, Felicia Bond, and her work is sweet and uncomplicated. The story has that same rhythm and beat you follow when reading poetry, but it is also gives a peaceful feeling to it's readers(and the ones being read to).
It's a day in the life of kind of story about animals on a farm, while the children are gone. It is a perfect addition to any child's book shelf and makes for a perfect bedtime story with it's calming effect.
I highly recommend buying this for toddlers! If you already have any of Brown's other books, this one will be a welcome addition.
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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: 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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