Harvest Home

As the days grow shorter, harvest time approaches.  Rhythmic rhymes and a repeating refrain describe the process of “bringing the harvest home.”

Homespun Sarah

In colonial Pennsylvania Sarah gets a new dress made from scratch! This rhythmic, rhyming story follows the planting of flax and carding of wool to the spinning of fiber and weaving of fabric, all the way to the eventual creation of a new dress for Sarah.

Saving Strawberry Farm

In the hot summer of 1933, a young boy helps to rally his town to save the local strawberry farm from a bank auction. Set in the Depression, the book focuses on simple pleasures like homemade lemonade and the importance of community. It also features a description of the Depression era in the back of

Farming

Farms are busy places throughout the year. Animals are born; fields are plowed and planted, and crops are harvested. The winters are quiet, but there are always chores to be done . . . and soon spring will come again. Here Gail Gibbons describes the activities and special qualities of life on a family farm.

Farm

This beautifully written and illustrated book depicts a year on a farm. It introduces the animals, equipment, and crops in a way that captures the life of a farm.

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