Brown, Margaret Wise

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.

Points out how all things, from an apple to a spoon, and from the sky to a shoe, have certain important qualities that are special about them, and that the most important thing about you is that you are you.

All day and night the traffic signal blinks its messages of stop and go.

As a little bunny says goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room, the illustrations grow progressively darker.

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

A collection of twenty-four poems for children by Margaret Wise Brown.