Big Red Barn
by Margaret Wise Brown · first published 1956
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Rhymed text and illustrations introduce the many different animals that live in the big red barn.
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…green-and-red color scheme makes it look absurd. I think this is an artifact of the printing technology available at the time. > A bowl of mush? Mush what? It's gruel. > Margaret Wise Brown also wrote The Big Red Barn which has a lot of the same sort of problems. Ahh, I love that one too, though! > Why did the big white hen stand on one leg? Why did the smaller breed of chicken have a clutch of 10 eggs, vs the white…
on “One Librarian Tried to Squash Goodnight Moon” ↗…milk to become mush. The mush needs to be thrown out. My World, which appears to be a follow on to Goodnight Moon, seems like the author was high. Extremely disjoint. Margaret Wise Brown also wrote The Big Red Barn which has a lot of the same sort of problems. Why did the big white hen stand on one leg? Why did the smaller breed of chicken have a clutch of 10 eggs, vs the white chicken's 1 egg? What happened to…
on “One Librarian Tried to Squash Goodnight Moon” ↗