Books
Apples
Apple Tree by Barrie Watts. Watch an apple tree through the year. Remarkable color photographs show the development of an apple, from blossom in spring to windfalls in the autumn. Each stage is explained in simple language, with both headings for very young children and more detailed information for slightly older readers.
How Do Apples Grow by Betsy Maestro. Describes the life cycle of an apple from its initial appearance as a spring bud to that point in time when it becomes a fully ripe fruit. Ages 5-9.
Beans
Bean by David M. Schwartz. This book from the Science Life Cycles Series has good illustrations showing the life cycle of a bean.
One Bean by Anne Rockwell. This story follows a young boy’s adventure of growing a bean.
Bees
The Honey Makers by Gail Gibbons. Thousands of bees visit more than one million flowers to gather the nectar to make a one-pound jar of honey. Here’s the buzz on how these remarkable insects work together to create it.
Hooray for Beekeeping by Bobbie Kalman. Learn all about bees, beekeepers, and honey.
Careers
Cool Careers for Girls with Animals by Ceel Pasternak & Linda Thornburg. This book features a variety of jobs that involve animals, from veterinarian and zoologist to pet sitter and wildlife manager.
Corn
Anna’s Corn by Barbara Santucci. The book portrays the love between a grandparent and grandchild and gently looks at loss and grief and the hope of new life.
Corn by Gail Gibbons. This book offers up the history of corn as well as the details concerning planting, cultivation, harvesting, and its many uses—a cornucopia of information about a popular farm product.
Corn by Elaine Landau. Examines the history, cultivation, and uses of corn.
Cotton
From Plant to Blue Jeans by Arthur L’Hommedieu. Describes the process of making blue jeans from the harvesting of cotton through the weaving of cloth and sewing the finished product. Ages 7-10.
Cows
Amazing Grazing by Cris Peterson. Learn how three different Montana ranchers raise beef cattle and manage their ranch.
Calf (See How They Grow). Superb photographs and colorful artwork show the early stages of a cow’s life.
Extra Cheese, Please! by Cris Peterson. When Annabelle the cow gives birth to her calf, she also begins to produce milk. The milk is then processed into cheese, and from the cheese, pizza is made. Grades PreK-4.
Hooray for Dairy Farming by Bobbie Kalmin. This book looks at life on a dairy farm, describing how the cows are housed, fed, cared for, and milked. Grades K-3.
Life on a Cattle Farm by Judy Wolfman. A young farmer named Adam describes what makes beef cattle farming so much fun-and so much work-for him and his father.
The Milk Makers by Gail Gibbons. Illustrated storybook of how cows produce milk, the processing of milk into many food products that people buy at the supermarket. Ages 4-8.
Cranberries
Cranberries: Fruit of the Bogs by Diane L Burns. In this photo book, students will learn the history of cranberries and then visit a modern cranberry farm through the seasons.
Farm Equipment
Fantastic Farm Machines by Cris Peterson. Every day there is work to do on a farm. All kinds of work. Lifting and hauling, cutting and chopping, plowing and planting, watering and mowing. And for each of these jobs there is a special machine.
Garden
From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons. This book takes a look at seeds and how they travel as well as how plants grow.
Jack’s Garden by Henry Cole. Building on the familiar cumulative tale about Jack, Cole creates an enticing guide to creating a garden. Double-page illustrations feature realistic, precise drawings of flowers, birds, clouds, and butterflies and showcase the garden’s progress during the growing season. Smaller, labels illustrations around the borders depict familiar objects such as tools, seeds, and insects. A page of gardening suggestions is included. Ages 4-7.
General Farming
All Around the Farm by Heather Alexander. Discover everything there is to know about all kinds of farms, from the powerful John Deere machines that work the fields to the amazing animals that live there.
Farming by Gail Gibbons. Find out what happens on the farm during the different seasons and learn about the different kinds of farming.
On the Farm by Diane James and Sara Lynn. A first look at animals helps to answer young children’s questions about how animals live, eat, and look after their young.
Pioneer Farm: Living on a Farm in the 1880s by Megan O’Hara. Uses the story of a young girl and her family to describe life on a small farm in Minnesota in the nineteenth century. Ages 9-12.
Portrait of a Farm Family by Raymond Bial. This book portrays the way of life for farm families.
Horse
Leah’s Pony by Elizabeth Friedrich. Leah’s pony is swift and strong. Together they ride through cornfields and over pastures, chasing cattle, as they gallop under summer skies. But now locusts have blackened the sky and the earth has turned to dust. It is the beginning of the great drought. And Leah’s papa faces losing the family farm.
What is a Horse? by Bobbie Kalman. Readers will learn what a horse is, what they eat, about the parts of their body, and much more.
Pizza
Hold the Anchovies: A Book about Pizza by Shelley Rotner and Julia Pemberton Hellums. Mouthwatering photographs and a crisp, engaging text take the reader step-by-step through the pizza-making process.
Potatoes
Potatoes by Ann L. Burckhardt. Very simple text introduces the potato to young readers. Kinds of potatoes, parts of potatoes, where and how potatoes grow and are harvested are covered. Grades 1-2.
Potato: A Tale from the Great Depression by Kate Lied. During the Great Depression, a family seeking work find employment for two weeks digging potatoes in Idaho. Written by an eight-year-old Kansas girl about her grandparents. Ages 5-10.
Poultry
The Egg (A First Discovery Book). Young children will find out fascinating facts about different kinds of eggs and see how a baby chick hatches-right before their eyes.
Pumpkins
It’s Pumpkin Time! by Zoe Hall. A young girl and boy tell how they prepare for their favorite holiday—Halloween. The story shows how they plant and take care of pumpkins for Halloween.
Pumpkins by Jacqueline Farmer. This book brings you a farmful of facts about pumpkins. Where do they come from? How do pumpkins grow? Why do we carve them? How do you make great pumpkin pie?
The Pumpkin Book by Gail Gibbons. This story explains how to plant pumpkins and how they grow.
The Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden by George Levenson. Through this story readers will discover the life cycle of a pumpkin.
The Pumpkin Patch by Elizabeth King. Text and photographs describe the activities in a pumpkin patch, as pink-colored seeds become fat pumpkins, ready to be carved into jack-o’-lanterns. Ages 5-8.
Sheep
Hooray for Sheep Farming! By Bobbie Kalman. Introduces the farming of sheep for wool, covering such aspects as shearing, lambs, sheep dogs, wool processing, farm maintenance, and the proper care of sheep. Ages 5-8.
Soil
The Disappearing Earth by Doug Peterson. A part of our earth is disappearing! But who’s behind it? To find out the answers, go undercover with the secret agent worms.
Soil by Christin Ditchfield. This book describes what soil is, what lives in soil, and the types of soil.
Soybeans
The Super Soybean by Raymond Bial. Through this book students will learn how soybeans are grown, harvesting, and processed. They will also learn about the many uses of soybeans.
Why the Brown Bean was Blue: The Story of a Soybean Frown Turned Upside Down by Susan M. Pankey. Readers follow along as a soybean tells his story.
Wheat
Bread Come to Life: A Garden of Wheat and a Loaf to Eat by George Levenson. This book tells the story of the sowing, growing, reaping, threshing, milling, mixing, kneading, shaping, rising, baking, and breaking of whole grain bread.
Miscellaneous
All About Turkeys by Jim Arnosky. This book talks about wild turkeys and their characteristics.
Grow Tree, Grow by Ellen Dreyer. Read how an acorn becomes a tree. Level 1 Reader: Preschool-1.
Hooray for Orchards! By Bobbie Kalman. Learn about fruit trees, pollinations, and harvesting.
Oranges by Inez Snyder. This book talks about the seeds, harvest time, and the market.
Places of Pride by Margaret Esposito. This book looks at one woman’s life between 1918 and 1945. It presents a collection of her photographs, recording the conditions and lifestyles of the families as they were and as they changed during the years.
Play Hard Eat Right: A Parent’s Guide to Sports Nutrition for Children by Debbi Sowell Jennings, M.S., R.D. and Suzanne Nelson Steen, D.Sc., R.D. This book gives insight into 6 to 12 year old’s changing nutrition needs and provides the tools you need to help your child get a head start.
Recycle EveryDay! By Nancy Wallace. Read about how this young rabbit and her quest to find the perfect entry for the recycle contest.
Lesson Plans
Apples, Pumpkins, and Harvest—More than 30 fun and easy projects that kids can make to add spice to favorite fall themes. Grades K-2.
Places of Pride—This coffee table book shows rural living during the early 1900’s.
Pumpkins—These book has craft ideas, learning centers, circle time activities, and more. Preschool/Kindergarten
The Honey Files: A Bee’s Life—These lesson plans and activities introduce students to the bee society, hive, pollination, honey and beekeepers. Grades 4-6.
To check out a book or learn more about them, contact Melinda at 815-732-2191 or [email protected].
Apple Tree by Barrie Watts. Watch an apple tree through the year. Remarkable color photographs show the development of an apple, from blossom in spring to windfalls in the autumn. Each stage is explained in simple language, with both headings for very young children and more detailed information for slightly older readers.
How Do Apples Grow by Betsy Maestro. Describes the life cycle of an apple from its initial appearance as a spring bud to that point in time when it becomes a fully ripe fruit. Ages 5-9.
Beans
Bean by David M. Schwartz. This book from the Science Life Cycles Series has good illustrations showing the life cycle of a bean.
One Bean by Anne Rockwell. This story follows a young boy’s adventure of growing a bean.
Bees
The Honey Makers by Gail Gibbons. Thousands of bees visit more than one million flowers to gather the nectar to make a one-pound jar of honey. Here’s the buzz on how these remarkable insects work together to create it.
Hooray for Beekeeping by Bobbie Kalman. Learn all about bees, beekeepers, and honey.
Careers
Cool Careers for Girls with Animals by Ceel Pasternak & Linda Thornburg. This book features a variety of jobs that involve animals, from veterinarian and zoologist to pet sitter and wildlife manager.
Corn
Anna’s Corn by Barbara Santucci. The book portrays the love between a grandparent and grandchild and gently looks at loss and grief and the hope of new life.
Corn by Gail Gibbons. This book offers up the history of corn as well as the details concerning planting, cultivation, harvesting, and its many uses—a cornucopia of information about a popular farm product.
Corn by Elaine Landau. Examines the history, cultivation, and uses of corn.
Cotton
From Plant to Blue Jeans by Arthur L’Hommedieu. Describes the process of making blue jeans from the harvesting of cotton through the weaving of cloth and sewing the finished product. Ages 7-10.
Cows
Amazing Grazing by Cris Peterson. Learn how three different Montana ranchers raise beef cattle and manage their ranch.
Calf (See How They Grow). Superb photographs and colorful artwork show the early stages of a cow’s life.
Extra Cheese, Please! by Cris Peterson. When Annabelle the cow gives birth to her calf, she also begins to produce milk. The milk is then processed into cheese, and from the cheese, pizza is made. Grades PreK-4.
Hooray for Dairy Farming by Bobbie Kalmin. This book looks at life on a dairy farm, describing how the cows are housed, fed, cared for, and milked. Grades K-3.
Life on a Cattle Farm by Judy Wolfman. A young farmer named Adam describes what makes beef cattle farming so much fun-and so much work-for him and his father.
The Milk Makers by Gail Gibbons. Illustrated storybook of how cows produce milk, the processing of milk into many food products that people buy at the supermarket. Ages 4-8.
Cranberries
Cranberries: Fruit of the Bogs by Diane L Burns. In this photo book, students will learn the history of cranberries and then visit a modern cranberry farm through the seasons.
Farm Equipment
Fantastic Farm Machines by Cris Peterson. Every day there is work to do on a farm. All kinds of work. Lifting and hauling, cutting and chopping, plowing and planting, watering and mowing. And for each of these jobs there is a special machine.
Garden
From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons. This book takes a look at seeds and how they travel as well as how plants grow.
Jack’s Garden by Henry Cole. Building on the familiar cumulative tale about Jack, Cole creates an enticing guide to creating a garden. Double-page illustrations feature realistic, precise drawings of flowers, birds, clouds, and butterflies and showcase the garden’s progress during the growing season. Smaller, labels illustrations around the borders depict familiar objects such as tools, seeds, and insects. A page of gardening suggestions is included. Ages 4-7.
General Farming
All Around the Farm by Heather Alexander. Discover everything there is to know about all kinds of farms, from the powerful John Deere machines that work the fields to the amazing animals that live there.
Farming by Gail Gibbons. Find out what happens on the farm during the different seasons and learn about the different kinds of farming.
On the Farm by Diane James and Sara Lynn. A first look at animals helps to answer young children’s questions about how animals live, eat, and look after their young.
Pioneer Farm: Living on a Farm in the 1880s by Megan O’Hara. Uses the story of a young girl and her family to describe life on a small farm in Minnesota in the nineteenth century. Ages 9-12.
Portrait of a Farm Family by Raymond Bial. This book portrays the way of life for farm families.
Horse
Leah’s Pony by Elizabeth Friedrich. Leah’s pony is swift and strong. Together they ride through cornfields and over pastures, chasing cattle, as they gallop under summer skies. But now locusts have blackened the sky and the earth has turned to dust. It is the beginning of the great drought. And Leah’s papa faces losing the family farm.
What is a Horse? by Bobbie Kalman. Readers will learn what a horse is, what they eat, about the parts of their body, and much more.
Pizza
Hold the Anchovies: A Book about Pizza by Shelley Rotner and Julia Pemberton Hellums. Mouthwatering photographs and a crisp, engaging text take the reader step-by-step through the pizza-making process.
Potatoes
Potatoes by Ann L. Burckhardt. Very simple text introduces the potato to young readers. Kinds of potatoes, parts of potatoes, where and how potatoes grow and are harvested are covered. Grades 1-2.
Potato: A Tale from the Great Depression by Kate Lied. During the Great Depression, a family seeking work find employment for two weeks digging potatoes in Idaho. Written by an eight-year-old Kansas girl about her grandparents. Ages 5-10.
Poultry
The Egg (A First Discovery Book). Young children will find out fascinating facts about different kinds of eggs and see how a baby chick hatches-right before their eyes.
Pumpkins
It’s Pumpkin Time! by Zoe Hall. A young girl and boy tell how they prepare for their favorite holiday—Halloween. The story shows how they plant and take care of pumpkins for Halloween.
Pumpkins by Jacqueline Farmer. This book brings you a farmful of facts about pumpkins. Where do they come from? How do pumpkins grow? Why do we carve them? How do you make great pumpkin pie?
The Pumpkin Book by Gail Gibbons. This story explains how to plant pumpkins and how they grow.
The Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden by George Levenson. Through this story readers will discover the life cycle of a pumpkin.
The Pumpkin Patch by Elizabeth King. Text and photographs describe the activities in a pumpkin patch, as pink-colored seeds become fat pumpkins, ready to be carved into jack-o’-lanterns. Ages 5-8.
Sheep
Hooray for Sheep Farming! By Bobbie Kalman. Introduces the farming of sheep for wool, covering such aspects as shearing, lambs, sheep dogs, wool processing, farm maintenance, and the proper care of sheep. Ages 5-8.
Soil
The Disappearing Earth by Doug Peterson. A part of our earth is disappearing! But who’s behind it? To find out the answers, go undercover with the secret agent worms.
Soil by Christin Ditchfield. This book describes what soil is, what lives in soil, and the types of soil.
Soybeans
The Super Soybean by Raymond Bial. Through this book students will learn how soybeans are grown, harvesting, and processed. They will also learn about the many uses of soybeans.
Why the Brown Bean was Blue: The Story of a Soybean Frown Turned Upside Down by Susan M. Pankey. Readers follow along as a soybean tells his story.
Wheat
Bread Come to Life: A Garden of Wheat and a Loaf to Eat by George Levenson. This book tells the story of the sowing, growing, reaping, threshing, milling, mixing, kneading, shaping, rising, baking, and breaking of whole grain bread.
Miscellaneous
All About Turkeys by Jim Arnosky. This book talks about wild turkeys and their characteristics.
Grow Tree, Grow by Ellen Dreyer. Read how an acorn becomes a tree. Level 1 Reader: Preschool-1.
Hooray for Orchards! By Bobbie Kalman. Learn about fruit trees, pollinations, and harvesting.
Oranges by Inez Snyder. This book talks about the seeds, harvest time, and the market.
Places of Pride by Margaret Esposito. This book looks at one woman’s life between 1918 and 1945. It presents a collection of her photographs, recording the conditions and lifestyles of the families as they were and as they changed during the years.
Play Hard Eat Right: A Parent’s Guide to Sports Nutrition for Children by Debbi Sowell Jennings, M.S., R.D. and Suzanne Nelson Steen, D.Sc., R.D. This book gives insight into 6 to 12 year old’s changing nutrition needs and provides the tools you need to help your child get a head start.
Recycle EveryDay! By Nancy Wallace. Read about how this young rabbit and her quest to find the perfect entry for the recycle contest.
Lesson Plans
Apples, Pumpkins, and Harvest—More than 30 fun and easy projects that kids can make to add spice to favorite fall themes. Grades K-2.
Places of Pride—This coffee table book shows rural living during the early 1900’s.
Pumpkins—These book has craft ideas, learning centers, circle time activities, and more. Preschool/Kindergarten
The Honey Files: A Bee’s Life—These lesson plans and activities introduce students to the bee society, hive, pollination, honey and beekeepers. Grades 4-6.
To check out a book or learn more about them, contact Melinda at 815-732-2191 or [email protected].
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