'The New Barn' is a children's book that tells the story of a 19th-century barn raising from the perspective of the farmer's seven-year-old son. Young Otto wants nothing more than to raise the family's new barn, but how can a boy help build something that requires the work of more than a hundred people? He is determined to find a way, but what Otto sees as help becomes hinderance. Banished from building the family's barn, Otto gathers the other children...