Farm Life Genre
Books in the Farm Life genre:
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
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)
Author(s):
Eva M. Kristoffersen
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
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
Young ’un (1944)
Author(s):
Herbert Best
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Strawberry Girl (1945)
Birdie Boyer and her family move to Florida to raise strawberries.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
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)
Author(s):
Ernest Poole
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
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.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Big Farmer Big and Little Farmer Little (1948)
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
A Name for Kitty (1948)
The boy has a new kitten. Now he needs a name for her.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Phyllis McGinley
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Tenggren’s Cowboys and Indians (1948)
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Flossie and Bossie (1949)
A tale of two chickens.
Read online at archive.org.
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)
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Defender (1951)
Author(s):
Nicholas Kalashnikoff
Illustrator(s):
Claire Louden
George Louden, Jr.
Down the Road with Johnny (1951)
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)
Author(s):
E. B. White
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Cocoa (1953)
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
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)
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
On the Banks of Plum Creek (1953)
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
These Happy Golden Years (1953)
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Horse Stories (1954)
Author(s):
Kate Barnes
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Little Baptiste (1954)
Author(s):
May McNeer
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
The Thanksgiving Story (1954)
A retelling of the story of the Pilgrims’ first thanksgiving.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Alice Dalgliesh
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
A Beast Called an Elephant (1955)
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
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.
Author(s):
Marie Hall Ets
Aurora Labastida
Illustrator(s):
Marie Hall Ets
A Treasury of Little Golden Books (1960)
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Phil Stong’s Big Book (1961)
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)
Author(s):
Joyce West
Illustrator(s):
Joyce West
Animals on the Farm (1967)
Nineteen farm animals sit for their portraits.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
A Likely Place (1967)
Author(s):
Paula Fox
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Emily’s Moo (1969)
Emily knows that cows say moo, but she has never learned how.
Read online at archive.org.
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.
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Karl W. Stuecklen
Tucker’s Countryside (1969)
Author(s):
George Selden
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Five Hundred Animals from A to Z (1970)
Author(s):
Joseph A. Davis
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
More Farmyard Tales (1970)
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The First Four Years (1971)
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.
Read online at archive.org.
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)
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.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Jacqueline Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Photographs
Farm Tales (2007)
A collection of nine classic Little Golden Books.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Feodor Rojankovsky
Richard Scarry
Gustaf Tenggren
Garth Williams
Et al
Love Among the Chickens: Revised (2011)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Andrzej Klimwoski
Little Golden Book Farm Favorites (2012)
Author(s):
Annie North Bedford
Nancy Fielding Hulick
Phyllis McGinley
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
J. P. Miller
Feodor Rojankovsky
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