Author: Lois Ehlert Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 9780397324408 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 40
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On this form you can view Animal ears and whiskers too. Lots of animals to be found, Shapes and colors ail around. Look at beaks and snouts with me. Make some more for us to see. Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1990 (NSTA/CBC) Parenting Honorable Mention, Reading Magic Award
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder Publisher: Zondervan ISBN: 0061958271 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 363
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When Laura Ingalls and her family set out for Kansas, they travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the perfect place to call home. Pioneer life is sometimes hard, but Laura and her family are busy and happy building their new little house. To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Laura Ingalls Wilder's timeless classic, this gorgeous new hardcover edition features Garth Williams's charming illustrations in vibrant full color. For anyone who has ever read and loved Little House on the Prairie, and for those who have yet to discover Laura's world, this is a volume to cherish.
Author: Roger Priddy Publisher: Priddy Books ISBN: 9781684490776 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 14
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Color Me: Farm is a part of a new activity range from Priddy Books. Children can add color to different farm pictures simply by wetting a paintbrush and painting over the pages, no paints needed! The pages are even reusable—once painted, the color magically disappears so kids can complete the pictures again and again. With sturdy board pages and a paintbrush included in a blister pack, it is the perfect book to take on vacation or on a trip.
Author: Brenda Shelton Strickland Publisher: Teacher Created Resources ISBN: 1420635387 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 162
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Provides reproducible patterns, minibooks, journal pages, word cards and memory book pages with bulletin board ideas and color patterns on a CD.
Author: David Mas Masumoto Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439182426 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 263
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It was when David Mas Masumoto's father had a stroke on the sprawling fields of their farm that the son looked with new eyes on the land where he and generations of his family have toiled for decades. Masumoto -- an organic farmer working the land in California's Central Valley -- farms stories as he farms peaches. In Wisdom of the Last Farmer, an impassioned memoir of revitalization and redemption, he finds the natural connections between generation and succession, fathers and children, booms and declines as he tells the story of his family and their farm. He brings us to the rich earth of America's Fruit Basket, under the vine trellises and canes where grapes are grown, and to the fruit orchards flush with green before harvest, where he uncovers and preserves the age-old wisdom that is fast disappearing in our modern, information-driven world -- and that is urgently needed in this time of food crises and social disruption. Masumoto sees the price the family has paid to grow complex heirloom peaches -- when the market rewards tasteless, big, and red fruits -- and the challenges of maintaining traditions and integrity while working in the modern, high-pressure agricultural marketplace. As his father's health declines along with the profitability of the family farm, Masumoto has the further hard work of nursing his father back to health -- becoming master to the teacher who once schooled him -- and is driven beyond economic concerns to even larger questions of life, death, and renewal. In his gorgeous, lyrical prose, Masumoto conjures the realities of farming life while weaving in the history of American agriculture over the past century, encapsulating universal themes of work along with wisdom that could be gleaned only from the earth. By the end of the workday, he understands the feeling of accomplishment when you've done your best...and discovers that it's when he lets go -- of both his father and control of nature -- that wisdom manifests itself. And, when Masumoto's daughter intends to return to the family farm, hope is found in the generations. In the quiet eloquence of Wisdom of the Last Farmer, you will see how your own destiny is involved in the future of your food, the land, and the farm.
Author: Gene Logsdon Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813172543 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 346
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When Gene Logsdon realized that he experienced the same creative joy from farming as he did from writing, he suspected that agriculture itself was a form of art. Thus began his search for the origins of the artistic impulse in the agrarian lifestyle. The Mother of All Arts is the culmination of Logsdon’s journey, his account of friendships with farmers and artists driven by the urge to create. He chronicles his long relationship with Wendell Berry and discovers the playful humor of several new agrarian writers. He reveals insights gleaned from conversations with Andrew Wyeth and his family of artists. Through his association with musicians such as Willie Nelson and his involvement with Farm Aid, Logsdon learns how music—blues, jazz, country, and even rock ’n’ roll—is also rooted in agriculture. Logsdon sheds new light on the work of rural painters, writers, and musicians and suggests that their art could be created only by those who work intimately with the land. Unlike the gritty realism or abstract expressionism often favored by contemporary critics, agrarian art evokes familiar feelings of community and comfort. Most important, Logsdon convincingly demonstrates that diminishing the connection between art and nature lessens the social and aesthetic value of both. The Mother of All Arts explores these cultural connections and traces the development of a new agrarian culture that Logsdon believes will eventually replace the model brought about by the industrial revolution. Humorous and introspective, the book is neither conventional cultural criticism nor traditional art criticism. It is a unique, lively meditation on the nature and purpose of art—and on the life well-lived—by one of the truly original voices of rural America.
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