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

The Runaway Bunny, first published in 1942 and never out of print, has indeed b ecome a classic. Generations of readers have fallen in love with the gentle magic of its reassuring words and loving pictures. With a soft, padded cover, rounded edges, and sturdy board book pages, this edition is perfect for sharing with babies and toddlers.

The story of a bunny who finds an egg and tries to find out what is inside it. After waiting and wondering, the egg cracks, a little duck comes out, and the duck and the bunny become best friends.

Relates the morning, noon, and evening activities of several young animals and a little girl.

"There was a little island in the ocean - and this book is about how it was on that little island, how the seasons and the storm and the day and night changed it, how the lobsters and seals and gulls and everything else lived on it, and what the kitten who came to visit found out about it" --

A fox causes consternation among the animals whose secrets he discovers. Little do they realize that because of the fox's secret, they have no cause for worry.

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.

Before going to sleep, a little rabbit says goodnight to his bedroom, and all of his familiar possessions, as his big, green bedroom slowly darkens, in a bigger version of the enduring classic. In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is a little bunny. "Goodnight room, goodnight moon." And to all the familiar things in the softly lit room, to the picture of the three little bears sitting on chairs, to the clocks and his socks, to the mittens and...

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

Animals have fathers, too, just like you do! Animal fathers play with their children and love them, too. Find out about these little fathers and the children they look after in this new classic picture book.