Dahlov Ipcar S Farmyard Alphabet

"Features illustrations that originally appeared in the following books: Hardscrabble harvest, One horse farm, The cat at night, Black and white, Bright barnyard, Brown cow farm, The land of flowers, Lobsterman, Wild and tame, I like animals, and The wild whirlwind"--T.p. verso.

Wild animals including the flamingo, panther, and kangaroo introduce each letter of the alphabet. On board pages.

A mother makes her little boy a quilt covered with jungle trees, flowers and animals. Every night the little boy looks at all the animals and trees and when he gets to the end of the quilt he sees that the animals are all sleeping.

The golden jubilee edition of a children’s classic first published in 1969. Join the farmer’s cat on his fascinating nighttime journey through fields, farms, forests, and even the city to see what only he can see after the sunsets. Legendary artist Dahlov Ipcar mesmerizingly alternates between dark night scenes and vivid color to deliver a beautifully illustrated children’s classic. Each scene is shown first as a human would see it at night in blacks and whites, and then as a cat sees it in with vivid color and fine detail. This commemorative edition features new back matter about Dahlov’s children’s books from her biographer, poet and art critic Carl Little.

This charming ABC book from Maine artist Dahlov Ipcar contains an original illustration done especially for this edition, her first new children's book illustration in more than twenty years. The Maine wildlife and coastal scenes are near and dear to her heart, and this new book serves as a kind of love letter to her home state where she lived and worked for almost seventy-five years, where, as she writes, A is for animals, wild and free, and W is for woodlands of wonder for you and for me.

Long, long ago in animals in the world were wild. Some were timid and hid in the woods, and some were ferocious and dangerous. And so begins a journey of discovery as Dahlov Ipcar presents a wealth of feral and fierce animals trained by our early ancestors to the tame animals we know today.

Big Betty is the one horse on the farm, and she works hard all year long at the different jobs which need doing on a farm, until the day a tractor takes over.