Margaret Wise Brown

Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room: goodnight chairs, goodnight comb, goodnight air.

"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....

Verses describe the holes that a mole, dog, worm, and rabbit dig, but none can compare with the work of a man and his steam shovel.

Depicts the changes that occur on a small island as the seasons come and go, as day changes to night, and as a storm approaches.

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

Before going to sleep, a little rabbit says goodnight to many different things.

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.

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

Four children who cannot fall asleep Christmas eve creep downstairs to see the tree, their stockings, and their wrapped gifts, and to hear the Christmas carolers.