Kittens in the hayloft, a foal finding its legs, piglets, goslings, a wobbly newborn lamb. Garth Williams painted the baby animals of the farm with the same tenderness he gave Charlotte's Web and Little House on the Prairie, and this Little Golden Book has been putting toddlers to sleep on the strength of it since 1953.

There is barely a plot and there does not need to be: each spread simply introduces another baby animal, softly furred and large-eyed, with a line or two of gentle text. It is a naming book, a first farm book and a nightly wind-down all at once, in the classic gold-spined format that three generations recognize on sight.

Twenty-four pages in the standard Little Golden Book trim, light enough for a one-year-old to lug around by the cover, which is exactly what will happen. At this price it is the easy add-on that quietly becomes the favorite.