Margaret Wise Brown

"If you run away," said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny." A little bunny keeps running away from his mother in this imaginary game of hide-and-seek. Children will be profoundly comforted by this lovingly steadfast mother who finds her child every time. The Runaway Bunny, first published in 1942 and never out of print, has indeed become a classic. Generations of readers have fallen in love with the gentle magic of its...

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

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

As the sun rises, birds, horses, rabbits, flowers, bugs, and finally children get up to start their day.

Illustrations and simple rhyming text describe how a child grows from ages one through six.

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.

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.

Pussycat knows Christmas is coming, plays in the snow, and watches the Christmas preparations.

A little rabbit goes hunting for a home in the springtime forest and ends up in a burrow.