Margaret Wise Brown

When a little bunny imagines leaving home and finding himself in a variety of situations, his mother assures him that, no matter where he goes or what he does, she will always be there with him.

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

Before going to sleep, a little rabbit says goodnight to many different things.

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,...

Descriptions of many objects familiar to children emphasizing the most important characteristics of each object

A little rabbit greets each day and says good night to the familiar things outside.

In brief rhyming text, lists all the types of insects the narrator likes.

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.

Unable to sleep on Christmas Eve, four children creep downstairs to see the tree, their stockings, their wrapped gifts, and to hear the singing of the carolers.

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.