Sign In to Favorite Item Select Finish: 12 available Sign In to Favorite ItemEnter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Discover what to read next through the Amazon Book Review. The Old Red Rocking Chair Available from these sellers. When Martha Jenkins buys a new blue sofa she decides to throw out her ancient red rocking chair. In so doing she unwittingly sets off a chain of events that gives her trusted old chair a new lease on life. From one home to another it passes, slowly losing its arms, cushion, back and rockers, thus appealing to each of the eagle-eyed individuals who rescue it from the garbage. The series inevitably circles around again to Martha, who carries the transformed chair home from a yard sale "and admired how well her sofa matched her new blue footstool."
While the premise is hardly new (cf. Rob Lewis's The White Bicycle ), Root's cheerfulness and lucid logic propel the story. The passing seasons, captured in both prose and robust illustrations, are a pleasurable bonus--as is the book's subtle recycling message. Sandford presents a likably eccentric cast and evokes small-town life in his warm, softly textured artwork. The dark, rich, painterly illustrations spark this cozy "life goes on" parable. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. From School Library Journal Grade 1-3--The Old Red Rocking Chair makes an art form of recycling as an old chair is discarded and rescued four times. Each new owner has a different use for it and different talents that transform the red chair into a blue foot stool that is eventually sold back to the original owner who does not recognize it. Children will quickly catch on to the format that allows the chair to please each owner ``until . . . '' and they may be the first to notice that the five people passing by the window in the last illustration are the people who rescued it.
The illustrations are wonderfully rich in color and detail with a nice blend of gender and age diversity in the realistic cast of small-town characters. Unfortunately, a texturing or shadowing technique renders several pages too dark for group viewing and murky even for individual enjoyment. The text is on a lighter background to facilitate easy reading. It is sad that these shadows have been cast on an otherwise superior book. --Jody McCoy, Casady School, Oklahoma CityCopyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. See all Editorial Reviews Browse the New York Times best sellers in popular categories like Fiction, Nonfiction, Picture Books and more. 1st ed edition (May 8, 1992) 10.2 x 8.2 x 0.4 inches Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces #482,687 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) in Books > Literature & Fiction > Contemporary in Books > Literature & Fiction > Literary 45 star100%See all verified purchase reviewsTop Customer ReviewsA GREAT story for kids about practical recycling!
What a great kids' book - about an old rocking chair that makes the rounds|Thanks|unique book for early readers|Red Shed Post & Picket Log Rocker Red Shed Post & Picket Log Rocker features a stained walnut finish.World's 2nd Largest Rocking Chair: Route 66 Red Rocker Erected on April Fool's Day 2008 outside the US 66 Outpost and General Store. It stands on rockers that are each 31.5 feet long and weigh a ton apiece. It's built of black steel pipe and was lifted into place by two cranes. The Chair was conceived by Outpost owner Dan Sanazaro as a way to entice customers to his store, which he had opened only two months earlier. It was designed by a local acquaintance with no formal engineering training, and built by the owner of a local welding company. Dan remembered a big rocking chair he had seen as a kid on a family road trip, and had heard of a 34-foot-tall rocker in Franklin, Indiana -- Big John -- that he knew he had to beat. At over 42 feet tall, The World's Largest Rocking Chair not only eclipses Big John, it stands nine feet taller than the former World's Largest Chair, now the World's Largest Office Chair, in Anniston, Alabama.
The Rocking Chair has a platform seat, but it's only available for sitting photo ops one day a year, "Picture on Rocker Day," the first Saturday in August. The Outpost hires a hoist truck to lift people into the chair. In order to be certified by Guinness as the World's Largest Rocking Chair, the chair had to rock, which it did when first built. But the massive, multi-ton chair was so terrifying in motion, and Dan was so worried that tourists might flip it over and kill themselves, that he has now securely welded the chair to its base. World's Largest Chair: The Battle Rages: Find more like this in our roadside roundup map of Big Chairs World's 2nd Largest Rocking Chair: Route 66 Red Rocker US 66 Outpost and General Store Address:5957 Hwy ZZ, Fanning, MODirections:US 66 Outpost and General Store. I-44 exit 203, then one mile east on Hwy ZZ (old Route 66). Hours:August 11, 2016: Business closed. RA Rates:Worth a Detour Save to My Sights More on World's 2nd Largest Rocking Chair: Route 66 Red Rocker
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