Margaret Wise Brown

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

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

A lonely little fir tree, standing by itself at the edge of the forest, has its life transformed when a father takes it home to serve as a living Christmas tree for his bedridden son.

A lonely little bunny finds an egg, and when it hatches into a duckling, they become friends.

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.

A little raccoon wants to see the night but his mother makes him wait until the full moon.

A little bunny delights in all the familiar things in his daily life.

Overview: A little brown bunny is in search of a home! He asks a frog, a groundhog, and other animals if he can live with them, but their homes don't suit him. Will he ever find a place to call his own?

Early one morning, a little scarecrow whose father warns him that he is not fierce enough to frighten a crow goes out into the cornfield alone.