The day before Thanksgiving, Turkey tries to disguise himself as other animals in order to avoid being caught by the farmer.

"Tracy Campbell never wanted to leave Hope Harbor, Oregon, or the idyllic three-generation cranberry farm where she grew up. But life--and love--altered her plans. When tragedy strikes and changes her plans yet again, she finds herself back in her hometown with a floundering farm to run and a heartbreaking secret. Romance is not on her agenda. Nor is it on Michael Hunter's. The visitor from Chicago has daunting secrets of his own. But when Tracy recruits...

"This photo-illustrated book for early readers explains what farmers do how they work to raise crops and animals"--

"Children can learn all about plants that grow, animals that help, and farmers who work hard, with easy-to-understand facts and bright pictures of rural life"--

A fable set in the Balabadur Hills of India pits six hungry crows against a farmer, as the combatants try to frighten one another away from a wheat field.

One hundred years ago, many hands raised a red-cedar barn. Now the barn stands tall, smelling of freshly cut hay and dusty horses. As the animals wake and wander through its weathered doors, the barn watches the day unfold. Chickens peck, cows shoo flies with swishing tails, swallows fly in and out, and a cat crouches in the grass to hunt for dinner. When peepers start their evening song and the animals settle in their bedding again--the horses in...

Describes how an urban bookworm and children's book author, along with her partner, set out to fulfill a lifelong dream of owning a working farm in Minnesota, offering a heartwarming, frequently humorous take on their crash course in living off and living with the land.

"If God wills it, Mary Yoder will do it, even if that means using crutches for the rest of her life. She was badly injured in a buggy accident as a child. Still, she is content living in the Dawdi Haus connected to her parents' farmhouse and with her work weaving baskets and raising specialty roosters whose feathers she uses to make excellent trout lures. She is truly happy at twenty-nine, but. . .she wouldn't mind finding a husband--if the Lord wills...

Almanzo Wilder celebrates his birthday by breaking in a pair of calves and sledding on his new sled.

In 1948, a boy is sent by his widowed father to live on his grandparents' farm in Vermont. He records his memories, describing the rural lifestyle of a bygone era. Lots of pastoral images, rugged individualism and unforgettable characters. By the author of A Stranger in the Kingdom.