The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Ipcar, Dahlov

Bright Barnyard

40 pp. | Down East | June, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-1-60893-326-6 $17.95 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-60893-328-0
Reissue (1966, Knopf)

(2) PS A colorful parade of barnyard fowl comes to eat kernels of corn and "my cat watches...thinking only how good they would be to eat." Then the cat sees rats under the barn and, knowing she will be praised for eating rats, forgets her desire for birds. Dominated by oranges, reds, pinks, and yellows, Ipcar's illustrations have a characteristically folk art–like quality.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc. | Horn Book Magazine Issue: February, 1967