“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just...

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.

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

The farm animals try to divert a busy little spider from spinning her web, but she persists and produces a thing of both beauty and usefulness. The pictures may be felt as well as seen.

Jack the cat gets much more than he bargained for when he decides to build the perfect nest to attract the perfect chicken.

When a tornado threatens the farm, Otis the tractor must try to save the animals, including the unfriendly bull.

Gritch the witch flies to Old MacDonald's farm for some pigs to make a piggie pie, but when she arrives she can't find a single porker.

Farmer Hoggett wins a runt piglet at a local fair and young Babe, as the piglet decides to call himself, befriends and learns about all the other creatures on the farm. He becomes special friends with one of the sheepdogs, Fly. With Fly's help, and Farmer Hoggett's intuition, Babe embarks on a career in shepherding with some surprising and spectacular results.

An enterprising chicken attempts to help an artist paint the barnyard and accidentally turns the whole picture blue.

How do pigs keep cool? Why do farmers shear their sheep? Which farm animals live underwater? In this book you'll find the answers and lots more facts about farm animals around the world. Farm animals is part of an exciting new series of books for children who are beginning to read on their own. The easy-to-read text has been specially written with the help of a reading expert.