Bright Barnyard by Dahlov Ipcar

$19.95 at Philadelphia Museum of Art.

In this gorgeously illustrated book originally published in 1969, a well-trained car watches the brightly plumaged birds of the barnyard feast on the golden corn scattered by her young owner. A young boy scatters golden kernels of corn to feed the birds of the barnyard, and watches in delight as the birds of the farm parade before him to get to their meal. From fat speckled hens, to drakes with black velvet heads, even his runaway white rabbits, they all join the feasting throng. The little calico cat watches…