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; even if he changes into a fish, she will become a fisherman fishing with a carrot.

"Margaret Wise Brown's simple, rhythmic text about the cycle of a day on a farm, where a family of animals peacefully plays and sleeps, has charmed generations of children. As in her classic Goodnight Moon, Brown engages children and helps settle them down for sleep as they follow along with the animals from morning to night in the barnyard. In the barnyard there are roosters and cows, horses and goats, and a pink piglet who is learning to squeal....

A poem telling of the birth of a child in a barn among the animals, with illustrations which depict the barn and people of a twentieth-century farm.

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.

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

A little cat named Sneakers experiences the sights, sounds, and smells of an ocean beach.