Cover Image

Bling blang

by Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967.

Format: Print Book 2000
Availability: Available at 1 Library 3 of 3 copies

Available (3)
Location Collection Call #
ACLA Mobile Library Services Preschool Children's Picture Books J PS PB GUTH
Location  ACLA Mobile Library Services
 
Collection  Preschool Children's Picture Books
 
Call Number  J PS PB GUTH
 
 
ACLA Mobile Library Services Preschool - Children's Non-Fiction Collection PICTURE j PZ8.3.G9635 Bl 2000
Location  ACLA Mobile Library Services
 
Collection  Preschool - Children's Non-Fiction Collection
 
Call Number  PICTURE j PZ8.3.G9635 Bl 2000
 
 
ACLA Mobile Library Services Preschool - Children's Kits J PS PB GUTH KIT
Location  ACLA Mobile Library Services
 
Collection  Preschool - Children's Kits
 
Call Number  J PS PB GUTH KIT
 
 

Summary
Attention young architects and builders: Check out the house that Woody Guthrie and Vladimir Radunsky built!

Run bring rocks
and I'll bring bricks.
A nice pretty house
we'll build and fix

Making something together has never been this much fun! Legendary singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie is the architect; graphic artist Vladimir Radunsky and his young friends are the builders. You can be sure the house they build--full of zany humor and vivid color--is a fun house. So, ZING-O ZANG-O, come on in! Any child who has built something out of bits and bobs of anything or known the joys of creating will feel right at home!

Sheet music featured on reverse side of jacket!
Visit www.woodyguthrie.org for info on Woody Guthrie
Published Reviews
Publisher's Weekly Review: "As in Howdi Do, Radunsky provides guileless visual accompaniment to the late Guthrie's whimsical lyrics. Howdi's central figure, an enthusiastic yellow dog reappears (along with his striped cat sidekick), in the company of two children. To the words, "You bring a board and I'll bring a saw,/ And we'll build a house for the baby-o," the team assembles a structure out of colorful rectangular shapes. A memorable onomatopoetic refrain sets the workers' methodical but worry-free pace: "Bling blang,/ Hammer with my hammer,/ Zing-o zang-o,/ Cutting with my saw." Finally, the dog becomes the "baby-o" by sitting in a stroller (and receiving the song's promised kisses). Blocky panelsDcomposed of paper, cloth and photos of old walls with peeling paintDserve as bricks and wood. The characters themselves resemble hinged paper puppets creating a two-dimensional home. An improvisational mood dominates, and it's easy to imagine the singer, illustrator and builders making things up as they play. Loose paintings by real children (subtly altered by the artist) close this lighthearted number, and Radunsky deserves a round of applause for a charmingly loopy rendition of Guthrie's song. Ages 2-5. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved"
(c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Additional Information
Subjects Children's songs -- United States -- Texts.
Songs.
Publisher Cambridge, Mass. :Candlewick Press,2000
Edition 1st ed.
Contributors Radunsky, Vladimir.
Language English
Description 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN 076360769X (hc. : alk. paper)
Other Classic View