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Farm Life Genre
Books in the Farm Life genre:
Animal Stories #8008 (1944)
Original stories featuring our animal friends. This is a later edition with about half as many stories. It is a Big not a Giant Little Golden Book.
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
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
Pierre Keeps Watch (1944)
A shepherd boy hides the village flocks from marauding Nazis.
Author(s):
Maria Gleit
Illustrator(s):
Helene Carter
Road to Down Under (1944)
Barbara Reid and her family emigrate from the Orkney Islands to Australia.
Author(s):
Maribelle Cormack
Illustrator(s):
Edward Shenton
Young ’un (1944)
Author(s):
Herbert Best
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Carrot Seed (1945)
Everyone tells him his carrot won’t come up, but the little boy knows better.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Ruth Krauss
Illustrator(s):
Crockett Johnson
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
Blue Ridge Billy (1946)
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Donkey Cart (1946)
Linda and her brother spend the summer on their uncle’s farm.
Author(s):
Clyde Robert Bulla
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)
A regional memoir by a war correspondent about New Hampshire in the early twentieth century.
Author(s):
Ernest Poole
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
My Friend the Cow (1946)
A promotional booklet from the National Dairy Council.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
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
The Wonderful Year (1946)
Author(s):
Nancy Barnes
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Judy’s Journey (1947)
The story of a family of migrant farm workers.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Big Farmer Big and Little Farmer Little (1948)
Two books in one about a Big farmer and a little farmer.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Little Farmer (1948)
On a summer’s day, a big farmer and a little farmer work in their fields.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Esphyr Slobodkina