Farm Life Genre
Books in the Farm Life genre:
Blueberry Corners (1940)
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Call of the Mountain (1940)
Author(s):
Cornelia Meigs
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Greased Lightning (1940)
Author(s):
Sterling North
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
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.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
Morgan’s Fourth Son (1940)
Author(s):
Margaret I. Ross
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Oxus in Summer (1940)
Author(s):
Katharine Hull
Pamela Whitlock
Illustrator(s):
Charles E. Pont
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
The Yearling (1940)
The story of Jody and his love for a fawn.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Indigo Treasure (1941)
Growing indigo on a southern plantation.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Frances Rogers
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Little Town on the Prairie (1941)
In the seventh book of her biographical series, Laura is living with Ma, Pa, Mary, Carrie and Grace in De Smet and earns her teaching certificate.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Mildred Boyle
Helen Sewell
Susannah the Pioneer Cow (1941)
Author(s):
Miriam E. Mason
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Fruits of the Earth (1942)
Author(s):
Jannette May Lucas
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
The Little Farm (1942)
Farmer Small has chores to do from morn ‘til night.
Read online at archive.org.
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.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
First the Flower, then the Fruit (1943)
Author(s):
Jannette May Lucas
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
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
Mountain Born (1943)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Yates
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
The Open Gate (1943)
When Mr. Preston makes a bid on a farm, he doesn’t know what he is getting into, but his family is happy he did.
Author(s):
Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
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
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