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Country Road ABC: An Illustrated Journey Through America's Farmland
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On today's farm, B is for barn cat...E is for erosion...G is for grinding feed, and I is for...inoculate? In 26 beautifully detailed spreads, acclaimed illustrator Arthur Geisert takes readers on a literal journey following a real road in Iowa (County Road Y31) through the ins and outs of America's farmland. This isn't your grandfather's farm book. It still features pigs, hay, and other familiar farm residents, but you'll see a very different kind of quicksand and traffic jam here...Along the bottom of each page is a continuous panorama that totals nearly forty feet of art. Country Road ABC is a unique and funny look at America's present-day farmland.
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Country Road ABC: An Illustrated Journey Through America's Farmland
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On today's farm, B is for barn cat...E is for erosion...G is for grinding feed, and I is for...inoculate? In 26 beautifully detailed spreads, acclaimed illustrator Arthur Geisert takes readers on a literal journey following a real road in Iowa (County Road Y31) through the ins and outs of America's farmland. This isn't your grandfather's farm book. It still features pigs, hay, and other familiar farm residents, but you'll see a very different kind of quicksand and traffic jam here...Along the bottom of each page is a continuous panorama that totals nearly forty feet of art. Country Road ABC is a unique and funny look at America's present-day farmland.
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I wanted to like this ABC book more, but have some reservations. A is for ammonia fertilizer. Z is for z-brace. Yep. The illustrations are interesting and pretty, though!
Country Road ABC: An Illustrated Journey Through America's Farmland has wonderful, detailed illustrations, and it is basically because of the beauty and richness of the former that I am rating this book with three stars; the accompanying text is uninspiring, unimaginative, and actually rather tedious (and does not at all mirror the intricate detail of the accompanying pictures). I mean, there is a wonderful barn scene shown with cats, calves, sacks of grain and the text simply and mundanely states that "B is for barn cats" (true perhaps, but inadequately descriptive and completely lacking in any kind of poetic imagination and narrative flow). And while author/illustrator Arthur Geisert does include a more detailed description of each of the illustrations at the back of the book (as a farm glossary), I cannot help but wonder why at least some of these interesting supplemental materials were not included in the text proper, in the individual alphabet sections (it would have rendered the narrative less monotonous, and would also have made the illustrations and the text appear more in synch with one another). Country Road ABC: An Illustrated Journey Through America's Farmland would actually work best as a wordless picture book, and I can really only recommend this book for the illustrations (and perhaps the glossary at the back); the alphabet part, the text itself, leaves very much to be desired.
good art work and this would be a good book to do a farm section in class. There are words I didn't know however there is a glossery in the back of the book that explains what everything means.
Beautiful illustrations, but some of the vocabulary (innoculate) is a little advance for those who read alphabet books. Farming community is a broad focus, but some of the items, like steel roofing, are not unique to farming. I would use this more with older readers to discuss the components of a community rather than to teach the alphabet.
Author and artist, Arthur Geiser, took a massive upset in his life and turned it into a gorgeous children's book that celebrates his new home. His book is Country Road ABC and it introduces children (and adults) to Bernard, Iowa, population 98.Geiser uses etched copper plates to make his own very intricate prints. He then paints them. The amount of details are amazing. Read once to learn the ABCs of farm life (M is milking, Z is for Z clamps). Then read it again to take in the artwork.If you want to know where Bernard is, check out the spread for the letter X. I'm including the Google Map zoomed in on the town. Get the book out and compare the details. They really are spot on with the satellite image.
I would use this book in my classroom to show the difference types of farming and different aspects of farming. This book goes through the alphabet and is all about farming. This could be used better for the kids that know the concepts of the alphabet or else students would need some background information to help them understand.
This is a very good book for older children that already know the alphabet because of the advanced vocabulary regarding modern farming that is introduced as well as the detailed illustrations by Arthur Geisert. Because of the lack of lowercase letters and inconsistency with vowel sounds, I would not use it to introduce the alphabet to young children.