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Farm Life Genre
Books in the Farm Life genre:
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.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
Smiling Hill Farm (1937)
The Wayne family are early pioneers in Indiana, settling at Smiling Hill Farm in 1817.
Author(s):
Miriam E. Mason
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (1938)
The Four and Lena (1938)
Four children and a goose head for the mountains for the summer.
Author(s):
Marie Barringer
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Highway Past Her Door (1938)
When Judy’s grandmother dies, she is thrown on her own resources and decides to go into business for herself.
Author(s):
Mary Wolfe Thompson
Illustrator(s):
Vera Neville
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.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Elizabeth Enright
The Yearling (1938)
Jodie rescues a fawn and raises it on his family’s Florida farm.
Author(s):
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Cock-a-Doodle Doo (1939)
In this case it’s a rooster raised by a duck in a familiar story.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
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
An Ear for Uncle Emil (1939)
Uncle Emil, the best herdsman doll in Switzerland has lost his ear to Gigi the goose.
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Author(s):
E. R. Gaggin
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Five Bushel Farm (1939)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
Homes in the Wilderness (1939)
Author(s):
William Bradford
Margaret Wise Brown
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Mary Wilson Stewart
Oxus in Summer (1939)
A collection of stories about the adventures of the six friends in the Oxus country.
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Pamela Whitlock
The Singing Tree (1939)
Author(s):
Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
The Story Book of Cotton (1939)
A look at how cotton is grown and used.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Story Book of Silk (1939)
The history of silk and how it is produced.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Story Book of Things We Wear: Wool, Cotton, Silk, Rayon (1939)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Story Book of Wool (1939)
Where it comes from, how we process it, why we wear it.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Yearling (1939)
The story of Jody and his love for a fawn.
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Author(s):
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth