Brown, Margaret Wise

A little dog goes to the seashore and hears the sound of the sea: foghorns, lapping water, the ding-dong of a bell buoy, the scuttling of a crab on the sand, and the flip-flop of a freshly caught fish.

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.

The great big tall fireman and the little fireman, whose fire houses are right next door to each other, each find a fire which is the right size for him to fight.

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 becomes a fisherman fishing with a carrot.

Twenty-five poems, about insects, fish, animals, birds, and the seasons.

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 dog who has a cold stays indoors all day and listens to the sounds of housecleaning, meals being eaten, and the wind and rain beating on the window pane.