Farm
Free delivery worldwide
Available. Expected delivery to the United States in 10-15 business days.
Not ordering to the United States? Click here.
Description
Award-winning illustrator Elisha Cooper captures the smell, taste, and feel of the changing seasons on a farm. There is so much to look at and learn about on a farm-animals, tractors, crops and barns. And children feeding animals for morning chores! With lyrical writing and beautiful illustrations that capture the rhythms of the changing seasons, Elisha Cooper brings the farm to life.
show more
show more
Product details
- 0-5
- Hardback | 48 pages
- 298.7 x 246.89 x 11.94mm | 625.96g
- 01 Apr 2010
- Scholastic US
- New York, United States
- English
- 0545070759
- 9780545070751
- 893,738
Review quote
Cooper (Beach) creates a joyful tribute to family farms in this luminous and lyrical picture book. The text is stately, quiet, and poetic (\u201cMorning chores would be better if they didn't happen every morning\u201d), and the book slowly takes readers through a year of planting, good and bad weather, and ordinary details about farm life. At the same time, Cooper includes enough specific portraits and names to make the book seem like a felicitous cross between fiction and nonfiction. Like a puzzlemaker, Cooper begins with a sequence of cumulative phrases and sketchbook-style paintings: \u201cTake a farmer, another farmer, a boy, a girl. Add a house, two barns, four silos.... Then cattle, chickens, countless cats, a dog. Put them all together and you get...\u201d A page turn reveals \u201c...a farm, \u201d broad and serene, stretched across the palest of skies. Delicately shaded watercolors, outlined in black, are a mix of spot art, clustered images, and spectacular spreads that portray the farm and its inhabitants from diverse points of view. The graceful text and serenely stunning illustrations create a portrait both reverent and realistic. Ages 4-8. (Apr.) -- Publisher's Weekly
show more
show more
About Elisha Cooper
Elisha Cooper is the award-winning author of Train, which received five starred reviews; Farm, which received starred reviews in Horn Book Magazine and Publishers Weekly; and Beach, which won the 2006 Society of Illustrators Gold Medal. Other picture books include A Good Night Walk, Magic Thinks Big, and Dance!, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year. Elisha Cooper lives with his family in New York City. For more information, go to elishacooper.com.
show more
show more
