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There's a Barnyard in My Bedroom
From their sheets and pillows to their books, fruit, and furniture, nearly everything in Jamie's and Megan's lives has come from nature. Learning to truly understand what surrounds them, they discover that the air they breathe includes water and life-giving gases and that the seeds they find will grow into vegetables. Color illustrations make this simple, stirring story come to life, and the activities and glossaries included for further enrichment help to educate as the story entertains.
- GenresPicture BooksChildrens
64 pages, Hardcover
First published February 12, 2008
About the author
David Suzuki
117 books257 followersDavid Suzuki is a Canadian science broadcaster and environmental activist. A long time activist to reverse global climate change, Suzuki co-founded the David Suzuki Foundation in 1990, to work "to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that sustains us." The Foundation's priorities are: oceans and sustainable fishing, climate change and clean energy, sustainability, and David Suzuki's Nature Challenge. He also served as a director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association from 1982-1987.
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August 24, 2020
Before I start my review of David Suzuki's 2008 (longer) picture book There's a Barnyard in My Bedroom, I do have to admit that I am kind of smiling a bit that the Open Library copy of There's a Barnyard in My Bedroom I have downloaded and borrowed is in fact a discard from the Hamilton Public Library, from my own local library system (although I also do find it kind of problematic and sad that public libraries are obviously increasingly discarding books).
And yes, with regard to the book itself, while I do really find that the accompanying illustrations for There's a Barnyard in My Bedroom are not all that much to my aesthetic tastes, since I do personally consider Eugenie Fernandes' artwork a bit too cartoon like and visually exaggerated (and so much so that the drawings even tend to feel rather visually overbearing and potentially distracting at times), what the author, what David Suzuki textually presents in There's a Barnyard in My Bedroom is both interesting and generally engagingly presented, describing with many different examples that nature, that the outside also usually tends to exist inside (in our bedrooms, kitchens, living rooms etc. since oh so much of what we sleep on, what we eat, what we build with etc. originally comes from nature, originates in the forest, on the farm and so on and so on). And indeed, that even articles made of say plastic have a huge and strong connection to nature (and indeed also to the past), since the petroleum used to make plastic was millions of years ago part of a prehistoric forest.
A fun and educational romp is There's a Barnyard in My Bedroom, and also imbued with the important ecological and environmental message that because nature is everywhere and really also in everything, it (and its ecosystems) obviously also both need and deserve protection and conservation. And even though I have from my own aesthetics not really enjoyed Eugenie Fernandes' illustrations as much as David Suzuki's text, I do think that narrative and images work well enough together and especially for the intended audience, for children from about the age of six to ten or so (and yes, while from a personal reading pleasure point of departure, I would probably be rating There's a Barnyard in My Bedroom with a sold three stars, the fact that David Suzuki has also included both a detailed glossary and some activities makes me up my rating to four stars).
And yes, with regard to the book itself, while I do really find that the accompanying illustrations for There's a Barnyard in My Bedroom are not all that much to my aesthetic tastes, since I do personally consider Eugenie Fernandes' artwork a bit too cartoon like and visually exaggerated (and so much so that the drawings even tend to feel rather visually overbearing and potentially distracting at times), what the author, what David Suzuki textually presents in There's a Barnyard in My Bedroom is both interesting and generally engagingly presented, describing with many different examples that nature, that the outside also usually tends to exist inside (in our bedrooms, kitchens, living rooms etc. since oh so much of what we sleep on, what we eat, what we build with etc. originally comes from nature, originates in the forest, on the farm and so on and so on). And indeed, that even articles made of say plastic have a huge and strong connection to nature (and indeed also to the past), since the petroleum used to make plastic was millions of years ago part of a prehistoric forest.
A fun and educational romp is There's a Barnyard in My Bedroom, and also imbued with the important ecological and environmental message that because nature is everywhere and really also in everything, it (and its ecosystems) obviously also both need and deserve protection and conservation. And even though I have from my own aesthetics not really enjoyed Eugenie Fernandes' illustrations as much as David Suzuki's text, I do think that narrative and images work well enough together and especially for the intended audience, for children from about the age of six to ten or so (and yes, while from a personal reading pleasure point of departure, I would probably be rating There's a Barnyard in My Bedroom with a sold three stars, the fact that David Suzuki has also included both a detailed glossary and some activities makes me up my rating to four stars).
December 16, 2010
Environment, extremely long
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