Farm

Available (10)

Location	Collection	Call #
ACLA Mobile Library Services	Preschool Children's Picture Books	j PB PS COOPER
Location	ACLA Mobile Library Services
Collection	Preschool Children's Picture Books
Call Number	j PB PS COOPER
CLP - Beechview	Children's Picture Books	j FICTION Cooper
Location	CLP - Beechview
Collection	Children's Picture Books
Call Number	j FICTION Cooper
CLP - Main Library	First Floor Children's Department - Picture Books	j FICTION Cooper
Location	CLP - Main Library
Collection	First Floor Children's Department - Picture Books
Call Number	j FICTION Cooper
Cooper-Siegel Community Library	Childrens' Room	j 630 COO
Location	Cooper-Siegel Community Library
Collection	Childrens' Room
Call Number	j 630 COO
Monroeville Public Library	Juvenile Picture Books	J E COOPER
Location	Monroeville Public Library
Collection	Juvenile Picture Books
Call Number	J E COOPER
Mt. Lebanon Public Library	Children's Non-Fiction	j 630 Coo
Location	Mt. Lebanon Public Library
Collection	Children's Non-Fiction
Call Number	j 630 Coo
Oakmont Carnegie Library	Juvenile Non-Fiction	J 630 CO
Location	Oakmont Carnegie Library
Collection	Juvenile Non-Fiction
Call Number	J 630 CO
Shaler North Hills Library	Juvenile Picture Book	j PICT BK COO
Location	Shaler North Hills Library
Collection	Juvenile Picture Book
Call Number	j PICT BK COO
South Fayette Township Library	Juvenile Picture Book	J E COO
Location	South Fayette Township Library
Collection	Juvenile Picture Book
Call Number	J E COO
Upper St. Clair Township Library	Picture Books	FARM COOPER
Location	Upper St. Clair Township Library
Collection	Picture Books
Call Number	FARM COOPER

 

Unavailable (3)

Location	Collection	Status
CLP - Lawrenceville	Children's Picture Books	ON HOLDSHELF
Location	CLP - Lawrenceville
Collection	Children's Picture Books
Status	ON HOLDSHELF
Northland Public Library	Children's Nonfiction	CHECKED OUT
Location	Northland Public Library
Collection	Children's Nonfiction
Status	CHECKED OUT
Wilkinsburg Public Library	Easy Nonfiction	CHECKED OUT
Location	Wilkinsburg Public Library
Collection	Easy Nonfiction
Status	CHECKED OUT

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Summary

Published Reviews

Booklist Review: "Most picture books about farms tend to be slapstick animal adventures rather than realistic views of daily life. Cooper's latest fills that gap with a quiet, atmospheric portrait of a farm through the seasons. Working in his signature style of loosely rendered figures and simple compositions in pencil and watercolor, Cooper combines beautiful, expansive views of a farm seen from a distance under an endless sky with small, individual images, such as the farm's cats, which younger children will want to point to and count. Like the pictures, the words move from large landscapes to small details. In a spread about May, for example, descriptions of the vast fields that look like an ocean of green mix with lines about the butterflies and bees that zoom through the garden. Filled with sensory details, the brief text has a poetic, stripped-down simplicity that matches the stark images and will read aloud well. Cameo appearances of the farm's animals and children will help hold young people's attention throughout this subtle, handsome view of modern, rural life.--Engberg, Gillian Copyright 2010 Booklist"
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Publisher's Weekly Review: "Cooper (Beach) creates a joyful tribute to family farms in this luminous and lyrical picture book. The text is stately, quiet, and poetic ("Morning chores would be better if they didn't happen every morning"), 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: "Take 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..." A page turn reveals "...a farm," 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.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved"
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Additional Information

Subjects	Farm life -- Juvenile fiction. Farms -- Juvenile fiction. Farm life -- Fiction. Farms -- Fiction.
Publisher	New York :Orchard Books,2010
Edition	1st ed.
Audience	004-008.
Language	English
Description	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 30 cm
ISBN	9780545070751 (hc) 0545070759 (hc)
Other	Classic View