Told in poetic detail and with Ted Rand's exquisite watercolors, "Once Upon a Farm" portrays the toil and triumph of farm life. With barns and bales, fences and flowers, chores and churns, we weather the seasons along with the young narrator. Told from a child's perspective, the story follows a family working together to make a life on the land they hold so dear. Resonating with rural truths, this family's toil and triumph in our country's heartland will strike a chord with readers everywhere. "Once Upon a Farm" is a place we can all recognize.

Once Upon A Farm

Children's Books

Bradby, Marie

Literature & Fiction

Orchard

When Daddy rides off on his horse in a terrible snow storm to deliver the mail, his family anxiously awaits his return

The Longest Wait

Catalanotto, Peter

WARD, JOHN

Orchard Books

In a tender tribute to her grandfather, the author tells the story of a mailman who, despite his wife's trepidations, insists on braving a blizzard to make his rounds, and the son who waits on edge for his return.

More Than Anything Else

Wanting to learn how to read above all other ambitions, nine-year-old Booker T. Washington fears that his long days in the saltworks will prevent him from trying, until a final burst of determination makes his hopes possible.

Momma, Where Are You From?

Momma describes the special people and surroundings of her childhood, in a place where the edge of town met the countryside, in a time when all the children at school were brown. By the creators of More Than Anything Else.

Growing Up & Facts of Life

scholastic

00 
 Finding a friend isn't easy. Especially when there aren't many kids age eleven in your neighborhood. 
 Being a friend is even harder. 
 In Pearl's neighborhood, Lenore is anyone's first choice. She gets her hair straightened and curled at a real beauty shop. Pearl's is still in braids. Lenore has her own pink phone and a frilly canopy bed. Pearl has to share a room with her teenage sister, "Princess" Diana, and a shaggy old bed with her sassy little sister, Angela. Lenore has followers -- Nadine and Ce-Ce. She hardly needs Pearl. 
 But Pearl still hopes -- until Artemesia comes along. She is everything Pearl herself dreams of being -- a modern dancer, a gifted artist. She is also a mystery. "That old stanky girl," Lenore snorts, mocking with the others Artemesia's ill-fitting yellow dress. Pearl, meaning the best, does the worst thing possible. 
 And still she hasn't a friend. 
 Or has she? 
 Finding a friend isn't easy. Especially when there aren't many kids age eleven in your neighborhood. 
 Being a friend is even harder. 
 In Pearl's neighborhood, Lenore is anyone's first choice. She gets her hair straightened and curled at a real beauty shop. Pearl's is still in braids. Lenore has her own pink phone and a frilly canopy bed. Pearl has to share a room with her teenage sister, "Princess" Diana, and a shaggy old bed with her sassy little sister, Angela. Lenore has followers -- Nadine and Ce-Ce. She hardly needs Pearl. 
 But Pearl still hopes -- until Artemesia comes along. She is everything Pearl herself dreams of being -- a modern dancer, a gifted artist. She is also a mystery. "That old stanky girl," Lenore snorts, mocking with the others Artemesia's ill-fitting yellow dress. Pearl, meaning the best, does the worst thing possible. 
 And still she hasn't a friend. 
 Or has she?

Some Friend

Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books

Finding a friend isn't easy. Especially when there aren't many kids age eleven in your neighborhood. Being a friend is even harder. In Pearl's neighborhood Lenore is everyone's friend of choice. She has her hair straightened and curled at a real beauty shop, her own pink phone, and a canopy bed. The most Pearl hopes for is to be included as one of Lenore's followers. Then outcast Artemesia comes into Pearl's life. Artemesia is everything Pearl dreams of being -- a dancer and an artist. But then Lenore makes it clear she can't stand Artemesia, Pearl does the worst thing possible. And she still hasn't got a friend. Or has she?

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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Once Upon A Farm

The Longest Wait

The Longest Wait

More Than Anything Else

Momma, Where Are You From?

Momma, Where Are You From?

More Than Anything Else

Some Friend

Some Friend