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Books in the Farm Life genre:

Caddie Woodlawn (1935)

Pioneer adventures of a girl growing up in northern Wisconsin.

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Author(s): Carol Ryrie Brink
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal - 1936

Gone Is Gone: The Story of a Man Who Wanted to Do Housework (1935)

Fritzl works hard in the fields every day. Liesi works hard all day, too. But when Fritzl complains about how hard he works and how easy Liesi has it, they trade places. The outcome is hilarious. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Wanda Gág
Illustrator(s): Wanda Gág

Little House on the Prairie (1935)

In the second book of the Little House series, Pa takes the family and sets out for Indian Territory to stake a claim.

Author(s): Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

The Little Ones (1935)

Stories of baby animals using word pictures and sound pictures such as, "the new wobbly lamb" and the puppies "squeaking soft squeaks". Read online at archive.org... View More

Author(s): Dorothy Kunhardt
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1935

Elisabeth the Cow Ghost (1936)

Elisabeth was known as the sweetest and gentlest cow in Normandy, but deep down she wondered if she was really wild and fierce. She decides to come back as a ghost to find out.

Author(s): William Pène du Bois
Illustrator(s): William Pène du Bois

Mulberry Village (1936)

A story of country life in China. We have not yet found a reliable cover image of this book. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please contact us.... View More

Author(s): Mary Brewster Hollister
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937)

In the fourth volume of her history Laura and the Ingalls family move to Minnesota and live in a dugout on the banks of Plum Creek.

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1938

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (1938)

When Bartholomew takes of his hat to the king, his head grows another one, until he is in danger of losing his head. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Dr. Seuss
Illustrator(s): Dr. Seuss

The Country Kitchen (1938)

A narrative about a young girl growing up in Michigan around the turn of the century and all the wonderful cooking her mother and her aunts did. There are recipes as well. Read online at archive.org... View More

Author(s): Della Lutes
Illustrator(s): C. Walter Hodges

The Streamlined Pig (1938)

When floods threaten the rich boy’s farm, he hires a fleet of airplanes to rescue the animals.

Author(s): Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Thimble Summer (1938)

Garnet lives on a farm in Wisconsin and has adventures all summer long.

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Author(s): Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s): Elizabeth Enright

Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal - 1939

Cowhand Goes to Town (1939)

Sam goes to town with his father for the cattle auctions, and hopes to get a six-shooter.

Author(s): Phil Stong
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Five Bushel Farm (1939)

Andrew Patterson, a ship captain’s son from Boston comes to live with Sally and her aunt. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

Greased Lightning (1940)

Zeke makes a pet of the runt of the sow’s litter and names him Greased Lightning.

Author(s): Sterling North
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1941

The Long Winter (1940)

The Indians warn that there will be a hard winter so Pa moves Ma, Laura, Mary, Carrie and Grace to his store building in town for the winter.

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1941

They Were Strong and Good (1940)

Robert Lawson tells the story of his parents and grandparents, and illustrates it too.

Author(s): Robert Lawson
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

Caldecott Medal
Caldecott Medal - 1941

Come Back to Wayne County (1942)

The story of a young boy growing up on a farm in Ohio.

Author(s): Jake Falstaff
Illustrator(s): Lynd Ward

The Little Farm (1942)

Farmer Small has chores to do from morn ‘til night.

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Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

The Story of Pancho and the Bull with the Crooked Tail (1942)

Pancho captures the wild bull with the crooked tail and earns the reward of a silver mounted saddle, a purse of gold, and the biggest hat in all Mexico.

Grandfather’s Farm Panorama: Ten Feet Long (1943)

Ten folding cardboard pages with a panorama of grandfather’s farm on both sides. The top edge of the interior pages is die cut.

Author(s): Feodor Rojankovsky
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Midnight and Jeremiah (1943)

Jeremiah raises Midnight, a black lamb to compete at the county fair. This book was made into a movie So Dear to My Heart in 1949.

Author(s): Sterling North
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1943

Animal Stories (1944)

Forty-six original stories featuring our animal friends. Some editions have only thirty-six stories.

Author(s): Georges Duplaix
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

A Bee in Her Bonnet (1944)

A young girl living on a farm in Nebraska takes up apiculture.

Author(s): Eva M. Kristoffersen
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1944

The Horse Who Lived Upstairs (1944)

Joey lives in the city and pulls a vegetable cart, but longs for the country, until he gets to try farm life for himself.

Author(s): Phyllis McGinley
Illustrator(s): Helen Stone

Magical Melons (1944)

More stories about Caddie Woodlawn and her family.

Author(s): Carol Ryrie Brink
Illustrator(s): Marguerite Davis

Young ’un (1944)

Old flan Post, who couldn't tolerate home, family life, or farmin'. He turned his back on all three when fate burned down his house and killed his wife. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Herbert Best
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Strawberry Girl (1945)

Birdie Boyer and her family move to Florida to raise strawberries.

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Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal - 1946

Farm Stories (1946)

Fifty stories about farm activities with 100 color illustrations by Tenggren.

Author(s): Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

The Great White Hills of New Hampshire (1946)

A regional memoir by a war correspondent about New Hampshire in the early twentieth century.

Author(s): Ernest Poole
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

The Home-Builders (1946)

Story of a family establishing a farm with buildings, equipment, and animals.

Author(s): Warren Hastings Miller
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

The Shy Little Kitten (1946)

A shy, striped kitten explores the farm with a mole and a puppy and goes on a picnic with the other animals.

Author(s): Cathleen Schurr
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

The Wonderful Day (1946)

Sally and Andrew must rally around to save Five Bushel Farm.

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Author(s): Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

Big Farmer Big and Little Farmer Little (1948)

Two books in one about a Big farmer and a little farmer.

A Name for Kitty (1948)

The boy has a new kitten. Now he needs a name for her.

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Author(s): Phyllis McGinley
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Tenggren’s Cowboys and Indians (1948)

Fifty-two stories and rhymes about the old West.

Author(s): Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

Flossie and Bossie (1949)

A tale of two chickens.

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Author(s): Eva Le Gallienne
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

Hirum the Hillbilly (1950)

When two city slickers try to trick Wesley’s folks out of their farm, Hirum the mule steps in and sends them packing.

Author(s): Phil Stong
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Little Yip-Yip and His Bark (1950)

A little dog has an annoying bark.

Author(s): Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

The Defender (1951)

Turgen takes pity on the mountain sheep during a hard winter.

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1952

Down the Road with Johnny (1951)

Johnny visits his aunt and uncle in the country.

Author(s): Irene Smith
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

The Round Meadow (1951)

Story of Dasher, a motherless fawn who is found on the meadow by a farmer and taken home. Here Dasher learns to live with cows and calves, and much later finds his way back to the free world of the forest.

Author(s): John Oldrin
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Charlotte’s Web (1952)

Fern adopts the runt of the litter and names him Wilbur, but it is Charlotte, A. Cavatica, who ensures he will always have a home on the Arable farm. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): E. B. White
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1953

Cocoa (1953)

Peter finally has a colt of his own.

Author(s): Margaret Glover Otto
Illustrator(s): Peter Spier

Farmer Boy (1953)

This is the story of Almanzo Wilder and his brother Royal growing up with their two sisters on a big farm in New York state.

Author(s): Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

Little House in the Big Woods (1953)

In this, the first volume of her family saga, Laura Ingalls is living with Pa and Ma, Mary and Carrie in the Big Woods of Wisconsin near Lake Pepin.

Author(s): Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1932

Little House on the Prairie (1953)

In the second book of the Little House series, Pa takes the family and sets out for Indian Territory to stake a claim.

Author(s): Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

The Long Winter (1953)

The Indians predict a hard winter so Pa moves Ma, Laura, Mary, Carrie and Grace to his store building in town. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

On the Banks of Plum Creek (1953)

In this fourth volume of her family saga, the Ingalls family moves to Minnesota and settles on the banks of Plum Creek. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1938

These Happy Golden Years (1953)

In the final installment of Laura Ingalls’ biography she becomes Mrs. Almanzo Wilder. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1944

Horse Stories (1954)

Stories and poems about horses.

Little Baptiste (1954)

It looked like a bad winter ahead for Big Baptiste, Big Marie, and Little Baptiste until they got some unexpected help with the harvest. Read online at archive.org... View More

Author(s): May McNeer
Illustrator(s): Lynd Ward

The Thanksgiving Story (1954)

A retelling of the story of the Pilgrims’ first thanksgiving.

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Author(s): Alice Dalgliesh
Illustrator(s): Helen Sewell

Caldecott Honor Book
Caldecott Honor Book - 1955

A Beast Called an Elephant (1955)

When the first elephant in America ends up in Jed’s Uncle Hach’s barn everyone is in for some exciting times. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Phil Stong
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Susan, Bill and the Golden Clock (1955)

In the fourth book of the series Bill and Susan are staying at Fraser’s farm. They explore the secret room above the granary and get involved with a mysterious artist.

Author(s): Malcolm Saville
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

Miracles on Maple Hill (1956)

Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hill.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Virginia Sorensen
Illustrator(s): Beth Krush
Joe Krush

Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal - 1957

Mister Penny (1956)

Mr. Penny's lazy barnyard pets steal into a neighbor's garden and wreak havoc. But when their good master is threatened by the neighbor, they mend their ways and work hard laying eggs, giving milk, plowing the garden and cutting the grass.

A Treasury of Little Golden Books (1960)

Forty-eight stories from favorite Little Golden Books.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Phil Stong’s Big Book (1961)

An omnibus containing Farm Boy, High Water and No-Sitch, the Hound. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Phil Stong
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Sunny Jim, the Uppity Kitten (1962)

Sunny Jim learns the law of the jungle in the quiet farmyard where he was born.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Sally Scott
Illustrator(s): Beth Krush

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

Animals on the Farm (1967)

Nineteen farm animals sit for their portraits.

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Author(s): Feodor Rojankovsky
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

A Likely Place (1967)

Lewis’ babysitter lets him play in the park where he befriends a retired cobbler. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Paula Fox
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

Emily’s Moo (1969)

Emily knows that cows say moo, but she has never learned how.

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Author(s): Tibor Gergely
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

The Far-Distant Oxus (1969)

Three children spend the summer holiday on Exmoor where they find ponies, friends and adventure. This is a somewhat shorter version of the original work. The original illustrations have also been dispensed with.

Tucker’s Countryside (1969)

The adventures of a city bred cat and mouse when they go to the country in Connecticut to visit their friend, Chester Cricket. A sequel to “The Cricket in Times Square.” Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): George Selden
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

Five Hundred Animals from A to Z (1970)

Surely the largest, most inclusive animal picture book of them all.

Author(s): Joseph A. Davis
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

More Farmyard Tales (1970)

A collection of twenty-one stories about farm life.

Author(s): Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

The First Four Years (1971)

The first four years of Laura and Manly’s marriage brings joys - the birth of their daughter Rose - and sorrow - the loss of an infant son and a devastating fire. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

The Truffle Pig (1971)

A pig is a boy’s best friend, especially when he can find the elusive truffle.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Claire Huchet Bishop
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Busy Day, Busy People (1973)

A pictorial exploration of work from the farm to the circus.

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Author(s): Tibor Gergely
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

Petey (1973)

A young boy has some unusual adventures with his Great Dane when they move from a farm to a small house in a development.

Author(s): Betty Cavanna
Illustrator(s): Beth Krush
Joe Krush

On the Farm (1976)

Pictures and vocabulary about life on the farm.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Richard Scarry
Illustrator(s): Richard Scarry

Tomie dePaola’s Country Farm (1984)

Through a hole in the cover, you can see an 8-tiered, detailed three dimensional FARM scene, wonderfully illustrated in color.

Author(s): Tomie dePaola
Illustrator(s): Tomie dePaola

Kitty on the Farm (1989)

The little boy has a new kitten, but he needs a name for her.

Author(s): Phyllis McGinley
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Stories from the Round Barn (1997)

A collection of stories about the Dougan family farm. Read online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Jacqueline Jackson
Illustrator(s): Photographs

More Stories from the Round Barn (2002)

The second volume in the history of the Dougan family farm in Beloit, Wisconsin.

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Author(s): Jacqueline Jackson
Illustrator(s): Photographs

Farm Tales (2007)

A collection of nine classic Little Golden Books.

Read online at archive.org

Love Among the Chickens: Revised (2011)

Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge makes his first appearance in this novel. He persuades his friend Jeremy Garnet, an Old Wrykynian, to join him and his wife in a chicken ranch. Jeremy meets Phyllis Derrick on the train to Lyme Regis and sets out to ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

Little Golden Book Farm Favorites (2012)

An collection including A Day on the Farm, A Name for Kitty and The Jolly Barnyard.... View More

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