Once Upon Macdonalds Farm - Hardcover

Gammell, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689828853 ISBN 13: 9780689828850

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2000

Synopsis

Everyone's heard of old man MacDonald's farm.
But, truth be told, MacDonald wasn't much of a farmer.
He didn't even have animals -- at first.
So he got himself some.
And there went the farm.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen Gammell is the acclaimed illustrator of dozens of books for young readers. Included among his many honors are the Randolph Caldecott Medal for Karen Ackerman's Song and Dance Man as well as two Caldecott Honors for Where the Buffaloes Begin by Olaf Baker and The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant. Stephen is also the illustrator of Alvin Schwartz's popular Scary Stories series and has written several other books of his own. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

From Booklist:

Originally published in 1981, Gammell's uproarious take on the old farmyard song has been reissued with an improved, slightly larger design, including a new jacket, front matter, and type, and clear white space framing the amazing two-color illustrations. The story of the bumbling farmer is timeless. He tries to farm with an elephant, a baboon, and a lion. When they rebel and leave, his neighbor gets him a chicken, a cow, and a horse. Unfortunately, the stalwart farmer messes up once more ("Ei-ei-oh") in a way that kids will laugh at again and again. There's a sense of a real hardscrabble farm and individual animals in Gammell's pictures. Maybe that's why the wild farce is so funny and so tender. Hazel Rochman
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About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0689828853
• ISBN 13: 9780689828850
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Gammell Stephen