Product Description: The author/illustrator team of "Inside a Barn in the Country" uses picture clues to tell this funny story about a spider, a cat, a bat, and many other "creatures" inside a spooky house. Full color.
Good Book Bad Description Great book. . but this is a read a-long book that requires a CD or a cassette tape to go along with it, which was not included.
Not a good value without the audio
great use of repetition and pictures My son received this from his preschool teachers on the last day of school. It was an instant hit and favorite bed time story.
The layout of the book has text on one side of the page and illustration on the other. The book starts with "Here is the hand that knocks on the door" and shows a monster's green hand. Page 2 continues with "Here is the hand that knocks on the door, that startles the spider....", and shows a picture of a spider. Each new page builds on the previous sentence and adds on to the story. On and on we go through the house until the reader finds out who is at the door.
The text of the story is peppered with pictures replacing of some of the words (so where it says "here is the hand", the word 'hand' is replaced by the picture of the green monster's hand).
What I've found when reading this story to my 3 year old, is that having the pictures interwoven with the text is helping him to notice that there are words on the page instead of just focusing on the illustrations. Now I find him trying to follow along with the text as I read the words. I'm not a teacher, so I can't comment on whether this will help in teaching kids to read, but I think we've stumbled onto something here.
I would definitely recommend this story for preschool aged children.
awesome and engaging. i work in a preschool/day care center, and we use this book all the time. the children ask to hear it all year round they love it so much. if you get this book, i would recommend the cassette that goes with it. it makes the book twice as much fun!!!!1
Terrific text and pix We just got this book and I've read it nearly a million times already to my 5-year-old. He loves the text and the pictures for each elevation in the story telling. Wonderful pictures that engage! Great ending, too.
Inside a House That Is Haunted Very cute book - along the lines of the story of the woman who ate all that stuff with out the death! - Perfect for younger children who are interested in books but don't quite read yet - they see the pictures and can tell you what is coming next! Great Halloween present instead of candy!
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