Marie Hall Ets

During one day a little boy hears such sounds as a jay bird scolding, oak leaves swaying, and a mother humming.

A little girl goes to the meadow to play, but each animal she tries to catch runs away from her--until she sits still by the pond, and they all come back.

A little boy imitates the inhabitants of farmyard and woods but he runs as only he alone can do to meet his father.

A young boy finds the wind a playmate of many moods: one that can sail boats, fly kites and blow umbrellas inside out.

Mr. Penny's lazy barnyard pets steal into a neighbor's garden and wreak havoc, but when their good master is threatened by the neighbor, they mend their ways and work hard laying eggs, giving milk, plowing the garden and cutting the grass.