Bonny's Big Day [Paperback]

James Herriot (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Demco Media (1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0606051651
• ISBN-13: 978-0606051651
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,546,541 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bonny's Big Day, November 29, 1999

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Cindy (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bonny's Big Day (Paperback)

This is an absolutely delightful story. One of the authors best. This book is truly appropriate for all ages. Really little ones will love the pictures and older children will warm to the story. Any adult will enjoy reading this to the kids over and over.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Touching Story about the love of our pets - big or small, November 10, 1998

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[e-mail] (Ione, Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bonny's Big Day (Hardcover)

My daughter brought this book home from her school library - We read it together. Christmas time I always purchase a "favorite" book for her & her brother - this one will fits the bill nicely!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LITTLE BOOK WITH A BIG STORY, November 5, 2008

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D. Blankenship (The Ozarks) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bonny's Big Day (School & Library Binding)

Bonny's Big Day by James Herriot is a take off from one of the marvelous stories that Herriot records in one of his collections of "big people books" and happens to be one of my favorite. This is actually the story of John Skipton and one of his two old work horses and the relationship and love between man and horse. Each, John and the horse Bonny are long retired after a long life of constant toil making a living on an English farm long before they, the farms became mechanized.

Briefly, at Herriot's prompting and encouragement, the old farmer enters his beloved horse Bonnie in a local, and for the area, traditional pet show.

James Herriot is a master story teller and I must confess, one of my all time favorite authors. I have read all of his books many times over and enjoy each reading more than the previous. I will, about every other year, give each of them a rereading. With this series of children's books, the stories that Herriot wrote are incorporated with the art work of Ruth Brown, an illustrator of no mean talent. She has captured rural England of that era perfectly and her soft flowing colors and style add perfectly to Herriot's words.

The nice thing about this book, and the others of the series, is that the young reader is exposed to some very good writing, good art work, history, the idea of compassion, and an era long gone by that we will never see again. I guess I am trying to say that these books are not only readable and enjoyable, but that the kids actually get something out of them and the adult certainly gets their monies worth.

This book belongs in any children's library and as a matter of fact, is quite enjoyable for the adult reader also. I do highly recommend it. These books make a great read for a group and I use them all of the time as such.

Don Blankenship
The Ozarks