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The house that Jack built = La maison que Jacques a bâtie : a picture book in two languages / Antonio Frasconi.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, French Publisher: Mineola, New York : b Dover Publications, Inc., 2017Copyright date: ©1958Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780486816463
  • 048681646X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Awards:
  • Caldecott Honor Book, 1959.
Summary: A cumulative rhyme in French and English relating the chain of events that started when Jack built a house.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 398.8 F841 Available 33111008957330
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 398.8 F841 Available 33111008821809
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Generations of children have delighted in the nursery rhyme about Jack and his house. Starting with the familiar refrain " This is the house that Jack built. This is the malt that lay in the house that Jack built, " the age-old chant expands to include the maiden all forlorn, the cow with the crumpled horn, and other distinctive characters.
This Caldecott Honor-winning picture book offers an additional attraction to the traditional tale: all of the verses appear in French as well as English. From the opening, " Voici la maison que Jacques a bâtie. Voici le malt que se trouvait dans la maison que Jacques a bâtie, " to the grand conclusion, the repetition of catchy rhymes provides effortless reinforcement of French words and phrases. Brilliantly colored woodcut illustrations by renowned artist Antonio Frasconi add an ageless beauty to this keepsake edition.

Parallel text in English and French.

Originally published in New York by Harcourt, Brace in 1958.

Caldecott Honor Book, 1959.

A cumulative rhyme in French and English relating the chain of events that started when Jack built a house.

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