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Farm Life Genre
Books in the Farm Life genre:
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.
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)
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)
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)
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.
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