Big Red Barn

One of Stefan's favorite books at the moment is Margaret Wise Brown's Big Red Barn. She is the author of the classic Goodnight Moon which we don't have, but seeing how much he loves this one we might have to get that for his birthday this year. It is so beautifully written and illustrated. Good children's literature is so fun to read. In my opinion, if I don't enjoy reading it, then it probably isn't written well enough for children to want to listen to it. Anyway, this post isn't about children's literature so I will stop myself. But if you got me going...well, I have a lot to say about that topic. So back to the book. Stefan loves it, and we have read it dozens of times. It starts out,

"By the big red barn
In the great green field..."

I hope you can find our "big red barn", the "great green field", the "big pile of hay and the little pile of hay."

Toward the end of the story it reads,
"And there they were all night long
Sound asleep
In the big red barn."

It was so cute to see Stefan lay the animals down in our barn. I didn't even tell him to do that! Love, love ,love that!

(p.s. I did not stop reading to take pictures. I got the camera out after we had had our beautifully, fun reading time. It was actually Stefan's idea. We got the blocks out to play together and I asked him what he wanted to build. Usually it's a tower, but today he said a barn and pointed to the book. I couldn't have been happier to oblige. Oh, and we got a little carried away and added everything...even the animals! I hope you enjoy the pictures!)