The Best Farm and Ranch Life Books for Kids

The objects left inside an abandoned farmhouse recover the noisy life of the family who once filled it.

An old truck and a girl's dreams revive a farm.

Month by month, a working farm moves through mud, new animals, haying, harvest, and the first snow.

Two children on a prairie farm wait to learn whether the woman answering their father’s newspaper ad will stay.

A ranch dog appoints himself Head of Ranch Security and narrates a chicken-house mystery with total confidence.

A boy works through a nineteenth-century farm year, hoping to prove that he is ready for a horse of his own.

A short-legged ranch dog describes an exhausting day of fences, cattle, gardening, bacon, and naps.

After the final harvest, a family puts every corner of its farm to bed before winter.

Farmer Small feeds the animals, works the fields, and keeps one little farm moving from morning to night.

A fourteen-year-old is left in charge of six thousand sheep for a summer in the Wyoming mountains.