Barnyard Bestiary Author:David Bouchard A Barnyard Bestiary — By David Bouchard — Illustrated by Kimball Allen — Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award nominee — Hackmatack Children's Choice Book Award nominee — CCBC Our Choice — Rocky Mountain Book Award nominee — Evocative paintings and poetic insights combine in this beautiful art book. — We are voices from the barn — And we're putting... more » them on notice.
Why is it that they don't see
When we're right before their eyes?
Why is it that they don't hear?
Might they care to see our portraits
That they'll want to show their children
When they ask what we were like?
In A Barnyard Bestiary David Bouchard focuses his poetic insight on domestic animals - some rare, some extinct, and some still quite common. The thread that binds these animals together is the way their relationship with man has deteriorated with the passage of time. Through the voices of such familiar beasts as the Highland Cow, the Buffalo and the Ostrich, and exotics like the Blonde Mangalitza Pig and the Onagadori Chicken, he questions the wisdom of our deliberate neglect of these once-prized beasts whose usefulness belongs to another era.
Kimball Allen's highly realistic and profoundly evocative paintings capture the exotic and unique nature of each of her subjects. This collection of sensitive poetry and spectacular art will delight and move children and adults alike.
David Bouchard is one of British Columbia's best-selling authors and most sought-after public speakers. Among his many previous publications are: If Sarah Will Take Me (Orca, 1997), Prairie Born (Orca, 1997), and The Journal of Etienne Mercier (Orca, 1998).
Kimball Allen is an artist who lives with Murphy, a Welsh terrier.« less