Margaret Wise Brown

A little bunny bids goodnight to all the objects in his room before falling asleep.

Two little trains, one streamlined, the other old-fashioned, puff, puff, puff, and chug, chug, chug, on their way West.

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

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, Caldecott Honor artist Diane Goode has created a new tableau of visitors to the barn that will please generations of new readers.

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

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

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.

A little rabbit greets each day and says good night to the familiar things outside.

"Imagine if your pets had their own special visitor on the night before Christmas ..."--Back cover.