Margaret Wise Brown

A little rabbit who wants to run away tells his mother how he will escape, but she is always right behind him.

Rhymed text and illustrations introduce the many different animals that live in the big red barn.

A Bunny finds an egg with something moving inside of it, and when a baby duck pecks his way out of the egg, the two animals become friends.

Farm animals seek shelter in a big, warm barn during a cold, snowy night.

When they find a dead bird, a group of children bury it in the woods, sing a song to it, and put flowers on the grave.

Illustrations and simple rhyming text describe how a child grows from ages one through six.

"The important thing about The important book is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind ..."--Dust cover.

Lyrical text relates the birth of a child in a barn among the animals, with illustrations which depict the barn and people of a present-day farm. Annotation. What child is this Who is born here Where the oxen Stomp and peer... When christmas in the barn was first published in 1952, it demonstrated all of Margaret Wise Brown's mastery at skillfully fashioning a truly childlike interpretation of the Nativity story. For this larger, full-color edition,...

Pussycat knows Christmas is coming, plays in the snow, and watches the Christmas preparations.

A little pumpkin dreams of the day when he will be a big, fierce, yellow pumpkin who frightens away the field mice as the scarecrow does.