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Overview
Había caballos, ovejas, cabras, gansos, y un viejo espantapájaros recostado en su azadón.Vivian todos juntos en el gran granero rojo.
Rhymed text and illustrations introduce the many different animals that live in the big red barn.
Synopsis
HabÍa caballos, ovejas, cabras, gansos, y un viejo espantapÁjaros recostado en su azadÓn. Vivian todos juntos en el gran granero rojo.
Publishers Weekly
Another all-time favorite by Brown masterfully and beautifully translated by Marcuse. The Spanish version maintains the rhythm and imagination that characterizes the original. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Editorials
Publishers Weekly
Another all-time favorite by Brown masterfully and beautifully translated by Marcuse. The Spanish version maintains the rhythm and imagination that characterizes the original. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.Criticas
PreS-Gr 2-In translating this classic story into Spanish, Marcuse has wisely adapted the text to reflect the rhyming charm of the original. So although it's not an exact translation, it captures the original's rhythmical flow and wholesome delight in farm life. Not as widely cherished as Brown's Goodnight Moon (Buenas noches, luna, HarperFestival, 1995), this story, similarly structured around a list, is just as gentle and comforting. Bond's illustrations are warm and detailed, from puppies' pink tongues to the brush strokes that converge into blades of grass to the almost photographic butterflies that flit over the fields of corn. Since it ends with the moon's progress across the night sky, El gran granero rojo can work as a bedtime story as well as a story time read-aloud or an introduction to a farm study unit. Sweet tempered and lyrical, this book should be included in all children's libraries and bookstores.—Coop Renner, Fairmeadows Elementary, Duncanville, TX Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
Children's Literature
This board book is the naptime companion to Goodnight Moon. In this story, the reader takes a tour through the big, red barn and learns about the different animals' activities throughout the day. Little pigs squeal in the morning, a mouse gives birth in the fields, and horses play in the straw. At nightfall, the animals cross the field toward the barn, while bats fly out of the rafters. A sense of joy and peace comes through in the rhyme, which has been carefully maintained by Marcuse, that will surely delight and lull the reader. Bond's illustrations are cheerful and dynamic in the primary colors of pastoral life. Her animals smile, but without undue anthropomorphism, and so they retain their identity as farm animals, not Disney characters. The book comes to a delicate close as the moon traverses the dark sky, alone and silently. The silhouette of a scarecrow glimmers and the reader feels the closing of the day. This book has more textual description and lacks the simplicity of Brown's Moon, yet is sure to satisfy an older reader who craves more text. 2003 (orig. 1956), HarperFestival, Ages 2 to 5.—Veronica Betancourt