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Farm Life Genre
Books in the Farm Life genre:
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
Señor Castillo: Cock of the Island (1948)
Señor Castillo is the head rooster of Santa Cruz Island.
Author(s):
Helen Claire
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
Tenggren’s Cowboys and Indians (1948)
Fifty-two stories and rhymes about the old West.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Willow Brook Farm (1948)
Daily life of a German immigrant farm family in Pennsylvania.
Author(s):
Katherine D. Christ
Illustrator(s):
John Clift
Hilda van Stockum
Cotton in My Sack (1949)
A story about the life of Arkansas field laborers.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Flossie and Bossie (1949)
A tale of two chickens.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Eva Le Gallienne
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Happy Man and His Dump Truck (1949)
All the animals want a ride in the happy man’s dump truck Read online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Miryam Yardumian
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
A House for Ten (1949)
A family with ten children live on a farm in Indiana in the 1850’s.
Author(s):
Miriam E. Mason
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Little Appaloosa (1949)
Ben lives on a ranch out west and receives an Appaloosa pony of his own to raise, train and ride.
Author(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
Illustrator(s):
Berta Hader
Elmer Hader
The Little Cowboy (1949)
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Esphyr Slobodkina
Marian and Marion (1949)
The story of the friendship of a city girl and a country girl in Holland.
Author(s):
J. M. Selleger-Elout
Illustrator(s):
B. Midderigh-Bokhorst
The Great Big Animal Book (1950)
Portraits of our animal friends.
Author(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
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
The Jolly Barnyard (1950)
The animals get together to give farmer Brown a birthday party.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Annie North Bedford
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Little Yip-Yip and His Bark (1950)
A little dog has an annoying bark.
Author(s):
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
Texas Tomboy (1950)
There is a drought in cattle country in this story of Charlotte and her ranching family.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
The Defender (1951)
Turgen takes pity on the mountain sheep during a hard winter.
Author(s):
Nicholas Kalashnikoff
Illustrator(s):
Claire Louden
George Louden, Jr.
Down the Road with Johnny (1951)
Johnny visits his aunt and uncle in the country.
Author(s):
Irene Smith
Illustrator(s):
Kurt Wiese
The Golden Grab Bag of Stories, Poems and Songs (1951)
A nice compendium of stories, poems and songs.
Author(s):
Marion Conger
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely
The Golden Story Treasury (1951)
A collection of stories, poems and songs, drawn from the earlier collection The Golden Grab Bag.
Author(s):
Marion Conger
Byron Jackson
Kathryn Jackson
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Tibor Gergely