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Farm Life Genre
Books in the Farm Life genre:
A Treasury of Little Golden Books (1960)
Forty-eight stories from favorite Little Golden Books.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
We Live in the Country (1960)
Short stories about children who live on different types of farms, including a tree farm, a cotton farm, a chicken farm and a sheep ranch.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
White Harvest (1960)
A family of migrant workers accumulates a stake and determines to take up a homestead in New Mexico as it becomes a state.
Author(s):
Lela Waltrip
Rufus Waltrip
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Wild Horse Kingdom (1960)
The story of how the author built up a pony farm in the wilds of Wales.
Author(s):
Mel Wayne
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
New Horizons (1961)
Janey has the opportunity to attend high school on the mainland.
Author(s):
Dorothy Simpson
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Bayley Morse
Phil Stong’s Big Book (1961)
Author(s):
Phil Stong
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
Purple Hills (1961)
A family of migrant farm workers takes up a homestead in New Mexico, shortly after it achieves statehood, and discovers why the previous owners left.
Author(s):
Lela Waltrip
Rufus Waltrip
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Boundary Riders (1962)
Three Australian children set out to check the boundary fences and cross over to investigate a waterfall.
Author(s):
Joan Phipson
Illustrator(s):
Margaret Horder
Dusty and the Fiddlers (1962)
Dusty invites a family of itinerant fiddlers to perform in his family’s barn, and incidentally helps end a neighborly quarrel.
Author(s):
Miska Miles
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Lois Lenski’s Big Book of Mr. Small (1962)
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
On the Way Home (1962)
Devastated by drought, Laura and Almanzo Wilder give up their claim and move to Mansfield, Missouri.
Author(s):
Rose Wilder Lane
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
The Etheredges
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The Big Goose and the Little White Duck (1963)
Author(s):
Meindert De Jong
Illustrator(s):
Nancy Ekholm Burkert
Jean-Claude’s Island (1963)
Will a tractor come to Jean-Claude’s island in the St. Lawrence River?
Author(s):
Natalie Savage Carlson
Illustrator(s):
Nancy Ekholm Burkert
The Loner (1963)
A boy without a name finds a home with a shepherd.
Author(s):
Ester Wier
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Pony in the Schoolhouse (1964)
When the children are stranded in the schoolhouse by a blizzard, they bring Star inside as well to keep him from freezing.
Author(s):
Miska Miles
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
Too Steep for Baseball (1964)
Their farm is too steep to play baseball, so the boys take up climbing.
Author(s):
Arthur Donald Stapp
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Eileen of Redstone Farm (1965)
When Eileen shows up on the Kennedy children’s doorstep. she is home. And they have to take her in.
Author(s):
Alice Lunt
Illustrator(s):
Maureen Eckersley
The Golden Country (1965)
Gay Allan inherits the sheep station at Cape Lost and must learn to manage it.
Author(s):
Joyce West
Illustrator(s):
Joyce West
Visitor from the Sea (1965)
When Becky Marshall rescues a dog washed up on her island, she has to figure out a way to keep it.
Author(s):
Dorothy Simpson
Illustrator(s):
Lee Smith
We Live in the North (1965)
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski