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Farm Life Genre
Books in the Farm Life genre:
A Long Way to Frisco (1951)
A nineteenth century pig drive on the west coast.
Author(s):
Alfred Powers
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Two Little Gardeners (1951)
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Edith Thacher Hurd
Illustrator(s):
Gertrude Elliott
Charlotte’s Web (1952)
Author(s):
E. B. White
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Christmas in the Barn (1952)
A poetic evocation of Christmas, set in a twentieth-century farm.
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Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Barbara Cooney
Peanuts for Billy Ben (1952)
A farm family in Virginia raises peanuts.
Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
A Place for Peter (1952)
Peter’s father trusts him to collect the maple sap and boil it down to maple syrup.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Yates
Illustrator(s):
Nora S. Unwin
Treasure Trove of the Sun (1952)
Two orphans in northern Russia go cranberry-picking in a dangerous bog.
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Author(s):
Mikhail Prishvin
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Cocoa (1953)
Peter finally has a colt of his own.
Author(s):
Margaret Glover Otto
Illustrator(s):
Peter Spier
Farmer Boy (1953)
This is the story of Almanzo Wilder and his brother Royal growing up with their two sisters on a big farm in New York state.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Little House in the Big Woods (1953)
In this, the first volume of her family saga, Laura Ingalls is living with Pa and Ma, Mary and Carrie in the Big Woods of Wisconsin near Lake Pepin.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Little House on the Prairie (1953)
In the second book of the Little House series, Pa takes the family and sets out for Indian Territory to stake a claim.
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Little Town on the Prairie (1953)
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Long Winter (1953)
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
On the Banks of Plum Creek (1953)
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
These Happy Golden Years (1953)
Author(s):
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Trouble at Beaver Dam (1953)
Author(s):
Florence Matthews Tchaika
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
Big Red Barn (1954)
A day on the farm.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator(s):
Rosella Hartman
Corn Farm Boy (1954)
The life of an Iowa farm family.
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Author(s):
Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s):
Lois Lenski
Horse Stories (1954)
Stories and poems about horses.
Author(s):
Kate Barnes
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The New Runaway Home (1954)
This is Book 6 of the Alice and Jerry basic reader series. The Harding family pulls up stakes and moves to California.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren