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40 pp.
| Down East
| June, 2015
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TradeISBN 978-1-60893-326-6$17.95
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EbookISBN 978-1-60893-328-0 Reissue (1966, Knopf)
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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.
40 pp.
| Flying Eye
| April, 2014
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TradeISBN 978-1-909263-25-3$17.95 Reissue (1960, Knopf)
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PS
A boy details, in disarmingly breathless and specific text, the animals he loves: "little ones, big ones; plain ones, strange ones." Ipcar's original lithographic plates were lost; this new edition is the product of restorers who "have painstakingly...re-mastered each brush stroke." The book retains its 1960s look, and today's animal lovers will also be enchanted.
34 pp.
| Down East
| October, 1999
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TradeISBN 0-89272-475-7$$9.95 1986, Gannett
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K-3
This story in occasionally bumpy rhyme lists the many animals congregating outside in a snowy tree on Christmas Eve. The narrator sees one star at the top of the tree, then two black bears, three bobcats, and a variety of other animals on up to twelve chickadees. The lush watercolors are symmetrical and static, giving a graphic and very stylized look to the small, cozy book.