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list price: $17.95
edition:Hardcover
category: Children's Fiction
published: Jan 1999
ISBN:9781551431314
publisher:
Orca Book Publishers
Description
In A Barnyard Bestiary David Bouchard focuses his poetic insight on domestic animals - some rare, some extinct, and some still quite common. The thread that binds these animals together is the way their relationship with man has deteriorated with the passage of time. Through the voices of such familiar beasts as the Highland Cow, the Buffalo and the Ostrich, and exotics like the Blonde Mangalitza Pig and the Onagadori Chicken, he questions the wisdom of our deliberate neglect of these once-prized beasts whose usefulness belongs to another era. Kimball Allen's highly realistic and profoundly evocative paintings capture the exotic and unique nature of each of her subjects. This collection of sensitive poetry and spectacular art will delight and move children and adults alike.
Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age:
- 9 to 18
- Grade:
- 4 to 12
- Reading age:
- 4 to 18
Awards
- Short-listed, Hackmatack Children's Choice Award nominee
- Commended, CCBC Our Choice
- Short-listed, CLA Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award nominee
- Short-listed, Rocky Mountain Book Award nominee
Out of print
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