When Farmer Brown and the animals are invited to Farm Day at school, he instructs them to be on their best behavior, forgetting that school can be like a barnyard.

While Farmer Brown sleeps, his animals prepare for a talent show at the county fair.

While all the other animals on the farm enjoy eating their regular food, the cow chooses to eat the one thing that she loves best.

In his apple orchard, a farmer meets a little man named Take and follows his advice, which does not turn out well, and the next day meets a little man named Give, whose advice is just as bad.

Describes the day-to-day life throughout the changing seasons of an early 19th-century New England family.

Farmer Brown puts the other animals to bed but gives up on Duck, who sets out to find just the right spot--and snack--to help him sleep.

When Farmer Brown goes on vacation, leaving his brother Bob in charge, Duck makes trouble by changing all his instructions to notes the animals like much better.

Librarian Kathleen Paulson is excited to meet three old pals of her beau, Detective Marcus Gordon. But the reunion is cut short when one of the friends is killed -- and the evidence points toward Marcus. Kathleen, who is sure Marcus is no killer, sets out with feline partners-in-crime Owen and Hercules to find out who is framing him.

Three of Doreen Cronin's animal tales featuring Farmer Brown, duck, and the other farmyard animals.

"O Pioneers! (1913) is the story of Alexandra Bergson, a fiercely independent and clear-headed young woman whose passionate faith in the Nebraska prairie makes her a wealthy landowner." "Willa Cather's second novel is imbued with the democratic utopianism of Walt Whitman and the serene regionalism of Sarah Orne Jewett, but it is not merely an elegy for the lost glories of America's pioneer past. In its rage for order and efficiency, O pioneers! also...