Four Legs Bad, Two Legs Good!

by Johnson, D. B.

• ISBN13: 9780618809097
• ISBN10: 0618809090
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-10
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary

A brilliant, hilarious, and child-friendly version of the George Orwell classic 'Animal Farm'.On No-Man Farm, Orvie rules. What makes that lazy pig the farmer? Orvie can walk on two legs. And that makes him better than all the other animals. All except Duck. "I have two legs, Orvie. Can I be the farmer now?" she asks. "You're too little, Duck, " says Orvie. "You can't do BIG work." "I can do BIG work!" Duck says.More like BIG MISCHIEF!Award-winning author and illustrator D.B. Johnson adds a lively new chapter to George Orwell's classic "Animal Farm." This time, a duck brings a joyful transformation to the farm-and to Orvie!In this picture book, as well as the ones he has written about Henry David Thoreau, D.B. Johnson continues, with simplicity and humor, to draw children to the complex ideas in great works of literature.

Author Biography

D. B. Johnson has been a freelance illustrator for more than twenty years and has done editorial cartoons, comic strips, and conceptual illustrations for magazines and newspapers around the country. Mr. Johnson’s first picture book, Henry Hikes to Fitchburg, was a New York Times bestseller and a Publishers Weekly bestseller, as well as an American Bookseller “Pick of the Lists.” Henry Hikes to Fitchburg also won numerous awards, including the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Picture Books and the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. Mr. Johnson and his wife, Linda, live in New Hampshire.