Big Red BarnMargaret 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. This board book edition features sturdy pages and is just the right size for toddlers.
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. Felicia Bond’s atmospheric illustrations add to the tranquil simplicity of this gentle story.
Here is the full text of the book: Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown
By the big red barn,
In the great green field,
There was a pink pig
Who was learning to squeal.
There was a great big horse
And a very little horse.
And on every barn
Is a weather vane, of course
A golden flying horse.
There was a big pile of hay
And a little pile of hay,
And that is where the children play.
But in this story the children are away
Only the animals are here today.
The sheep and the donkey
The geese and the goats
Were making funny noises down in the throats.
An old scarecrow
Was leaning on his hoe
And a field mouse was born...
In a field of corn.
Cock-a-doodle-doo!
In the barn there was a rooster
And a pigeon, too.
And a big white hen
Standing on one leg
And under the hen
Was a quiet egg.
There was a bantam rooster
And a little bantam hen
With a big clutch of eggs.
Count them. There are ten
Cock-a-doodle-doo!
Mooooooooo! Moo!
There was a big brown cow
And a little brown cow.
There was an old black cat,
Meow! Meow!
And a tiger tomcat
Yeow! Yeow!
There was a big red dog,
Bow! Wow!
With some little puppy dogs
all round and warm.
And they all lived together
In the big red barn.
And they played all day
In the grass and in the hay.
When the Sun went down
In the great green field
The big cow lowed
The little pig squealed.
The horses stomped in the sweet warm hay
And the little donkey gave one last bray.
The hens were sleeping on their nests
Even the roosters took a rest.
The little black bats flew away
Out of the barn at the of the day.
And there they were all night long,
Sound asleep
In the big red barn
Only the mice were left to play,
Rustling and squeaking in the hay,
While the moon sailed high
In the dark night sky. Here is another link on YouTube Here is another link on YouTube Book information:
Reading age: 2+
Word count: 345
Number of unique words: 150, Word list
Number of pages: 32
Year: 1954
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