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.

I like stars. Blue stars. Far stars. Shooting stars. I like stars!

Because of his ugly and awkward appearance, a duckling is ostracized by other animals.

A little dog named Muffin is awakened by a tiny noise that sends him on a search to find out what it is.

A little bunny listens to noises all around him and then makes some of his own.

Rhyming verses describe things that are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, black, gray, white, and pink.

As the day comes to a close, various animals and a small child wind down their activities and go to sleep.

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.

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

Margaret Wise Brown was the author of Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, along with hundreds of other books, stories, and songs. This book contains some those long-forgotten works from one of the most enduring writers for children of all time.