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.

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, the little bunny says goodnight.

Rhymed text and illustrations describe the jouney of two trains, one streamlined, the other old-fashioned, on their way west.

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.

From the lost manuscripts of renowned children's author Brown, this bedtime story is based on the classic New England Sampler prayer, God Bless the Moon and God Bless Me. The poetic verse of the text shows a child praying for God's blessing on children in different parts of the world and themselves as the moon shines down on them all.

Unable to sleep on Christmas Eve, four children creep downstairs to see the tree, their stockings, their wrapped gifts, and to hear the singing of the carolers.

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

Peter's wish comes true when he gets a little pet pig who is sometimes good and sometimes bad. When little Peter asks his mother for a pet pig, he's in for a few surprises. No matter how dirty, messy, noisy, or stubborn his unusual pet is, she's always perfect in Peter's eyes.

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. They put golden tinsel on his branches And golden bells And green icicles And silver stars And red and green and blue and purple chains of shining Christmas balls. All alone in an empty field grew a little fir tree. It dreamed of being part of a forest-or part of anything...

The diggers are digging holes. Animals and machines dig a journey of discovery in this hidden treasure from Margaret Wise Brown, author of the children's classics Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny.