This book made its way into our house before our oldest was born. I started reading it to him every night before he was born and then at bedtime after he was born. It is a sweet and perfect bedtime story with illustrations that are as warm and cuddly as the story.
I used to be a preschool teacher and one of the interview questions I had was to name my favorite children’s book. Â In that split second when you have to come up with a coherent answer I came up with Margaret Wise Brown’s The Big Red Barn. Â I think the reason I fell in love with this book, besides the sweet and simple story, Â is the cadence of the words, the rhyme and the ease with which children can learn the story and start to “read” it themselves because of its simplicity. Â Less is more with this book. Â It’s not a showstopper…it is a quiet classic.
