A Day in the Life of Murphy
by Alice Provensen
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Murphy, a farm terrier, describes a day in his life as he gets fed in the kitchen, hunts mice, goes to the vet, returns to the house for dinner, investigates a noise outside, and retires to the barn for sleep.Tags
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children's picture book with CD. I liked the audio but it does work better as a read-along (viewing the pictures while listening). This is older and not ideal for new readers (small, all-caps font, among other considerations) but is still enjoyable for those not concerned with honing their reading skills.
To me this was not a very interesting book, and did not grab me like the other ones have so far. I think it is a good book for a student to read to their self but not a book you would read to the whole class. A lot of different sounds are produced so I think it could be helpful for children who are in the process of learning word pronunciation. I did however like the illustrations and the placement of them.
Murphy is a dog who lives in barn with other animals. He doesn't like it very much because he has to fight for scraps of food. Then he goes to the vet and doesn't like it and he is ecstatic when he returns home.
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Alice Provensen was born Alice Rose Twitchell in Chicago, Illinois on August 14, 1918. She took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the University of California at Los Angeles before finding a job at the animation studio of Walter Lantz. She met her future husband, Martin Provensen, while he was working on a Navy training film during show more World War II. They married in 1944 and relocated to Washington D.C., where she worked as a graphic artist for the Office of Strategic Services. They later moved to New York and became known as an author-illustrator picture book team. They created many award-winning picture books including A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Inexperienced Travelers by Nancy Willard, which won a 1982 Caldecott Honor, and The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot, which won the 1984 Caldecott Medal. Their other books included A Year at Maple Hill Farm, Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm, Karen's Curiosity, Karen's Opposites, The Fuzzy Duckling, Katie the Kitten, The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown, and A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. They also created Tony the Tiger, which was the advertising symbol of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes. She continued working after her husband's death in 1987. Her books included The Buck Stops Here: The Presidents of the United States, A Day in the Life of Murphy, Punch in New York, and Klondike Gold. She died on April 23, 2018 at the age of 99. show less
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- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
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