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Farm Life Genre
Books in the Farm Life genre:
Farm Ballads (1882)
Poetry from on the farm.
Read online at archive.org
Author(s):
Will Carleton
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
Old Homestead Poems (1888)
Author(s):
Wallace Bruce
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
Freckles (1904)
A one handed orphan takes on the job of protecting the valuable trees in the Limberlost from timber pirates.
Author(s):
Gene Stratton-Porter
Illustrator(s):
E. Stetson Crawford
Love Among the Chickens (1906)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
H. M. Brock
Chicken World (1910)
Author(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
The Farm Book: Bob and Betty Visit Uncle John (1910)
Two children spend from plow time to first snow on a farm when everything was still done by hand and horse. Read online at BPL.
Author(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Love Among the Chickens: Revised (1921)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Cowboy (1922)
Author(s):
Philip Ashton Rollins
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Children of the Moor (1927)
This is a story about a family of children during the Swedish famines of the 1860’s.
Author(s):
Laura Matilda Fitinghoff
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Jinglebob (1930)
This is an authentic tale of cattle ranching in the 1880’s.
Author(s):
Philip Ashton Rollins
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Lesby (1931)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Willis
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Abandoned Orchard (1932)
The story of wresting a livelihood out of a hundred acres of apple orchard that for years bad been allowed to grow and bear as it would without horticultural attention.
Author(s):
Eleanor Risley
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Little House in the Big Woods (1932)
In this, the first volume of her family saga, Laura Ingalls is living with her Ma and Pa, sisters Mary and Carrie in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, near Lake Pepin.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Farmer Boy (1933)
The story of Almanzo Wilder growing up with his brother Royal and his two sisters on a big farm in New York state.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Away Goes Sally (1934)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Bluebonnets For Lucinda (1934)
Lucinda live on an island of the coast of Texas and comes to the mainland when the bluebonnets are in bloom.
Author(s):
Frances Clarke Sayers
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Farm Boy: A Hunt for Indian Treasure (1934)
Harlan visits his cousins on their farm and helps them hunt for Indian treasure.
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Flash: The Story of a Horse, a Coach-Dog and the Gypsies (1934)
The story of the fastest horse in the kingdom, sire of Powder, how he ran off with the gypsies, and finally comes home.
Author(s):
Esther Averill
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Hansi (1934)
Author(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
Illustrator(s):
Ludwig Bemelmans
The Blue Mittens (1935)
Episodes of Wisconsin farm life before the turn of the century.
Read online at archive.org
Author(s):
Mary Katharine Reely
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese