"As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all." --

Matthais grows from a little boy to a grandfather on a small island out in the bay.

A brother and sister run away from their cruel and wicked stepmother to a forest, but cannot escape her powers.

A cheerful assortment of sentences that illustrate the rules of spelling.

"Fear of man and the existence of animals through changing seasons in the forest dramatically told." --

Lyrical text relates the birth of a child in a barn among the animals, with illustrations which depict the barn and people of a present-day farm. Annotation. What child is this Who is born here Where the oxen Stomp and peer... When christmas in the barn was first published in 1952, it demonstrated all of Margaret Wise Brown's mastery at skillfully fashioning a truly childlike interpretation of the Nativity story. For this larger, full-color edition,...

A sly fox tries to outwit a proud rooster through the use of flattery.