Central Kansas Library System

Lyrical text relates the birth of a child in a barn among the animals, with illustrations which depict the barn and people of a twentieth-century farm.

Verses describe the holes that a mole, dog, worm, and rabbit dig, but none can compare with the work of a man and his steam shovel.

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

A reprint of one of Ms. Brown's first books, which compiles her own poems, sketches, and stories.