Miss Hickory
by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
illustrated by Ruth Gannett
Age: 8+
Interests: toys, dolls, nature, animals, birds, seasons, Christmas, religion
Miss Hickory
11 Mar 2015 7 Comments
in Books, books 8+ Tags: animals, birds, Christmas, dolls, nature, religion, seasons, toys
Miracles on Maple Hill
15 Sep 2014 Leave a comment
in Books, books 7+ Tags: community, country life, depression, family, farming, nature, seasons
Miracles on Maple Hill
by Virginia Sorensen
Age: 7 +
Interests: country life, seasons, farm life, family, community, nature
The Little Grey Men
16 Apr 2014 1 Comment
in Books, books 8+, Classics Tags: adventure, animals, boats, country life, forest, gnomes, little people, nature, river, seasons, travel
The Little Grey Men
by BB
illustrated by Denys Watkins-Pitchford
Age: 8+
Interests: gnomes, little people, boats, travel, adventure, animals, nature, birds, country life, seasons
Children of the Forest
18 Feb 2014 2 Comments
in Books, books 2+, Classics Tags: animals, fairies, family, forest, little people, nature, seasons, winter
Children of the Forest
by Elsa Beskow
Age: 2+
Interests: little people, nature, forest, animals, fairies, family, seasons, Sweden
Farmer Boy
21 Mar 2013 1 Comment
in Books, books 6+ Tags: American history, animals, country life, farm, farming, pioneer life, seasons
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Harper & Row: 1933
372 pp. – 29 chapters
Age: 6 + (read to); 7+ (independent reading)
Interests: pioneer life, farming, horses, country life, American history
Also by this author: Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie, On the Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake
Next: Caddie Woodlawn, Sarah Plain and Tall; and picture books – Abraham Lincoln, Ox-Cart Man
Little House in the Big Woods
19 Feb 2013 1 Comment
in Books, books 6+, books 7+ Tags: American history, animals, autobiography, farming, history, hunting, nature, pioneer life, seasons
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
HarperCollins, 1932
238 pp. – 13 chapters
Age: 6 + (read to); 7+ (independent reading)
Interests: history, pioneer life, farming, autobiography, seasons, nature
Also by this author: continuing in the series – Farmer Boy, Little House on the Prairie, On the Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake
Next: Caddie Woodlawn, Sarah Plain and Tall; and picture books – Abraham Lincoln, Ox-Cart Man
D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths
26 Sep 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 7+ Tags: action, creation myth, dragons, gods, Magic, monsters, myths, Norse myths, seasons, violence, war
D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths
by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
New York Review Children’s Collection, 1967
155 pp.
age: 7
interests: mythology, magic, Scandinavia, Norse myths, gods, monsters, dragons, creation myths, war
also by these author/illustrators: Foxy, d’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths, d’Aulaires’ Book of Trolls, Abraham Lincoln
Bambi (1942)
28 Aug 2012 2 Comments
in Movies, movies 5+ Tags: animals, death, deer, environment, forest, nature, seasons, weather, winter
Released: 1942
Rated: G
Length: 70 min.
Age: 5+ (commonsense media says 5+ too)
Scary Factor/Violence: one antler-slamming battle between Bambi and another stag; terror-stricken animals flee a large forest fire; a scary fight with vicious hunting dogs; gunshots are heard but deaths occur offscreen
Intense Scenes: death of Bambi’s mother (see full review for description)
Interests: animals, forest, nature, seasons, deer
Next: book Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
Ox-Cart Man
04 Feb 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 4+ Tags: American history, country life, farming, history, seasons
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1980
Donald Hall, text
Barbara Cooney, illustrations
Viking Press, 1979
38 pp.
Age: 4+
Interests: history, farming, country life, self-sufficiency, seasons, American history, New England, folk art
Also by this illustrator: Miss Rumphius
A Flock of Shoes
19 Nov 2011 1 Comment
in Books, books 5+, Canadian books Tags: seasons, shoes, summer, travel, winter
BLUE SPRUCE nominee 2012
by Sarah Tsiang
illustrated by Qin Leng
Toronto: Annick, 2010
30 pp.
Age: 5 +
Interests: shoes, seasons, summer, winter, travel
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