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1) Horse farms
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Giddyap! It's time to visit a horse farm! Horse farms raise and train horses for a variety of jobs. Some horses are trained to carry riders over woodland trails. Some horses are trained for equestrian competitions. Others are trained to help police officers! Inside this book, readers will see how horses are raised and learn about the people who care for them. Manageable text is paired with colorful photographs of horses growing up to make this a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Windmill Books
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
32 pages : colored illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
I fly through the air with the greatest of ease. And I am also something you do to your peas.
What am I?
These farmyard riddles are the cream of the crop. Find out the answer to this and 60 more in this incredible collection, featuring hilarious puns, brain-teasers and tricky tongue-twisters. All riddles are accompanied by playful cartoon illustrations, which may point to the solution...
ABOUT THE SERIES: Riddle Me This is packed full of clever...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Text and photographs introduce young readers to various careers available on a farm such as a laborer, veterinarian, or mechanic among others. Colorful sidebars encourage young children to think, create, guess, and ask questions about working on a farm.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Madison McDowell returns from several years teaching overseas, she has high hopes of picking up where she left off at her family's Christmas tree farm in Oregon. But between damage from a recent wildfire and the neglect due to her sister Addie's unwillingness to invest, the farm is in sad shape. In fact, Addie is intent on selling the property. And to top it off, her former high school flame, the now-widowed Gaven Thompson, has plans to turn...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (215 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Enjoy fun-filled barnyard adventures with favorite PBS Kids characters! Arthur and Buster take a trip to the farm for Great-Grand Uncle Theo's 85th birthday and learn what it truly means to be family. Daniel Tiger and Miss Elaina play with animals at the Neighborhood farm.
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A farm is its own kind of exciting rural community, and readers discover what life is like for farmers and their families through accessible, relatable text and colorful photographs. Developing knowledge of different kinds of communities is an important part of early social studies curricula, and this topic is fun for readers to explore as they learn what happens on a farm. A detailed picture glossary helps readers understand farm life by clarifying...
12) The farm
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Language
English
Description
"Text and photographs take readers on a visit to the farm, including descriptions of the things, people, and animals found there. This book includes a video, which launches via a 4D app"--Publisher's website.
Author
Publisher
Voyageur Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Language
English
Description
Offers guidance and tips for small-scale and hobby farming, from planting and harvesting to farrowing and taking livestock to market. Includes a glossary, resources for further information, and color photographs.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally bestselling author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, a heartfelt coming-of-age story that Karen Joy Fowler calls "a timeless classic book you will read and reread." Mary Frances "Frankie" Lombard is fiercely in love with her family's sprawling apple orchard and the tangled web of family members who inhabit it. Content to spend her days planning capers with her brother William, competing with her brainy cousin Amanda,...
15) Small-space vegetable gardens: growing great edibles in containers, raised beds, and small plots
Author
Publisher
Timber Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
213 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Size matters! Andrea Bellamy shares creative ways to grow a wide array of vegetables, fruits, and herbs in diminutive settings, year-round." -Debra Prinzing, author, speaker, and podcaster
Small-Space Vegetable Gardens explains the basics of growing a bounty of edibles in a minimal amount of space. Andrea Bellamy shares all the knowledge she's gained from years of gardening small. You'll learn how to find and assess a space, how to plan and build...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
226 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife’s fifth-generation homestead in Nebraska, in hopes of passing it on to their four children. But as the handoff nears, their small family farm―and their entire way of life―are under siege.Beyond the threat posed by rising corporate ownership of...
18) On the farm
Author
Publisher
Discovery Toys
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
[17] p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A cat seeks a quiet place for her family of kittens away from the noisy sounds of the other animals on the farm.
Series
Living and the dead volume Season 1
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (6 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young couple inherits a farm and they are determined to start a beautiful new life together. However the home they have inherited starts to unleash unsettling and dangerous supernatural phenomena that starts to threaten their marriage.
20) Farm
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the activities on a busy family farm from the spring when preparations for planting begin to the autumn when the cats grow winter coats and the cold rains begin to fall.