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Farm Life Genre
Books in the Farm Life genre:
Heidi (1922)
Author(s):
Johanna Spyri
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
The Country Book (1924)
Two children spend time in the country.
Author(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Heidi (1924)
The story of an orphan who goes to live with her grandfather in the high alpine pastures.
Author(s):
Johanna Spyri
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
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
The Story of Milk and How It Came About (1927)
A brief history of milk, one of a series of books sponsored by the City and Country School in New York.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Watson
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Blacksmith and the Blackbirds (1928)
The blacksmith forbids the blackbirds his garden. So they hire him to make them gardening tools so they can make their own garden.
Author(s):
Edith Rickert
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Jinglebob (1930)
This is an authentic tale of cattle ranching in the 1880’s.
Author(s):
Philip Ashton Rollins
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Timothy and the Blue Cart (1930)
Three children spend the summer on a farm in New Hampshire and make friends with the vegetable man and the horse that pulls his blue cart.
Author(s):
Elinor Whitney
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
The Farmer in the Dell (1931)
A look at life on the farm in the olden days.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
The Good Earth (1931)
A family story of China. Tenggren did only the dust jacket.
Author(s):
Pearl S. Buck
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1931)
Author(s):
John Fox, Jr.
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
From Hunters to Herdsmen (1932)
Ancient history for grade school students.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Forbes O’Hara
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Johnny Goes to the Fair (1932)
Johnny takes his pig to the County Fair.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
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
Martin the Goose Boy (1932)
Gustel’s grandfather, who is the best clock-maker in the Tyrol, carves him a wooden goose boy named Martin to keep him company on the mountains.
Author(s):
Marie Barringer
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Taming the Wild Grasses (1932)
An elementary school ancient history.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Forbes O’Hara
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
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
The Story Book of Food (1933)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
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