The big red barn (A Let me read book)

By Eve Bunting

Book Overview

A youngster's sense of security is threatened by the arrival of a stepmother and the destruction of the old red barn on her family's farm. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152071458
• ISBN13: 9780152071455
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 31 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A great rhyming animal story with wonderful illustrations.

Margaret Wise Brown's "The Big Red Barn" epitomizes what books for very young children should be. With a rhythmic rhyme and wonderfully simple imagery, it takes you through a day in the lives of the animals that live together in a barn. Each animal is treated with equal importance, even the field mice. As the day comes to a close, the pictures get gradually darker, the text more sparse. The imagery conjured up by the words is wonderful, as are the illustrations. This is a perfect bed-time story book for young children.