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One hundred years ago, a little boy watched his family and community come together to build a grand red barn. This barn become his refuge and home-a place to play with friends and farm animals alike. As seasons passed, the barn weathered many storms. The boy left and returned a young man, to help on the farm and to care for the barn again. The barn has stood for one hundred years, and it will stand for a hundred more: a symbol of peace, stability,...
4) Barn savers
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A boy spends a long day helping his father dismantle a nineteenth-century barn so that the pieces can be used in other barns and houses to live another one hundred years.
5) Big red barn
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Rhymed text and illustrations introduce the many different animals that live in the big red barn. On board pages.
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"The story of the American Quilt Trail, featuring the colorful patterns of quilt squares writ large on barns throughout North America, is the story of one of the fastest-growing grassroots public arts movements in the United States and Canada. In Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement Suzi Parron travels through twenty-nine states and two Canadian provinces to visit the people and places that have put this movement on America's tourist...
14) An age of barns
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A detailed study of the design and construction of early American barns which gives an insight into the thoughtful designing and building skills used.
15) Barns of America
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Contains 85 color photographs describing barns of America. Most of them are classic originals, built by hand.
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"Beam by beam and board by board, Bess the barn is built by able hands to keep the farm's animals safe and sound. Through many seasons and celebrations, that's just what she does, until she starts to sag...and creak...and slump. Then new everything comes along: a new farmer and a shiny new barn. A mean storm arrives not far behind, putting both barns to a dangerous test--can old Bess weather this threat to the farm? Bess opens her doors wide, welcoming...
17) A sassy surprise
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Happy Go Lucky is beginning to feel at home at Big Apple Farm, but things start to change when a new pony named Sassafras Surprise arrives.