Let's play with John Deere Each hardworking farm life scene will engage your little one with a pair of lift-a-flaps with peek-a-boo surprises. Talk about the different machines that are a big help on the farm. Inside the flaps, you'll find fun facts about items in the artwork. 12 chunky flaps with peek-through holes, easy for little hands to open and close Lifting flaps encourage the use of fine motor skills and the content-rich text builds vocabulary Colorful and engaging illustrations Officially licensed John Deere product Collect all the books in the Peek-a-Flap series
Nothing runs or reads like a John Deere finger puppet tractor book This interactive farming story features a fun finger puppet tractor toy built into the book encouraging interactive play, hand-eye coordination, and language development in your little one. Babies and toddlers learn best when they are playing, especially when their grown-ups are in on the fun A must for your little tractor enthusiast Collect the entire series in the Finger Puppet Collection Fun tractor puppet encourages interactive play between little ones and their grown-ups Soft plush and a rhyming story combine to provide both tactile and verbal learning opportunities Practice hand-eye coordination while enjoying together time Great gift for the little John Deere fan in your life Officially licensed John Deere product
Corny Cornpicker is bought by a farmer who neglects him, and he wonders if he will ever see his friend, Johnny Tractor, again. A new farmer buys Corny and brings all the old friends back together again.
Oink, oink! Moo! Meet all the friendly animals on the farm in this interactive lift the flap sturdy board book. Explore the features: Little ones will love exploring every farm-themed page filled with fun facts, new vocabulary words, and surprises found under sturdy lift-a-flaps while learning all about farmyard animals and their habitats along the way! Lets go to my farm and meet chickens, cows, ducks, roosters, horses, pigs, llamas, fish and more while touring the barn, pasture, field, and pond! Durable pages and chunky flaps are perfect for little exploring hands, which also help strengthen hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills. A lively, educational first farm introduction designed to entertain and engage curious little readers. A must for little animal lovers! 12 chunky flaps with peek-through holes easy for little hands to open and close Sturdy board pages for little exploring hands to read over and over again. Flip the flap up and down to discover new animals. Packed with fun animal and agricultural facts and peek-a-boo surprises! Lifting flaps encourage the use of fine motor skills and the content-rich text builds vocabulary Playful illustrations perfect for keeping toddlers and preschoolers entertained and engaged Collect the entire Peek-a-Flap Board Book series! Little ones will love these books!
Meet all the friendly animals on the farm in this interactive Fold Out and Play Puzzle Activity book. Little ones will love exploring every John Deere farm-themed page filled with coloring, drawing, puzzles, and punch out activities for hours of fun. Count how many eggs each hen laid, or create fun rural scenes with 500 animal and tractor stickers. There is a lot to do on the farm, so you better get busy! A must for little animal and John Deere lovers! John Deere Kids children's books recognize that the preschoolers of today are the farmers, builders, and innovators of tomorrow. Content and formats are based on the legacy of a long-loved company that encourages kids to play in backyards, to dig in the dirt, get muddy, and learn where food and shelter come from. 500 stickers included featuring cows, goats, chickens, farm horses, John Deere tractors, farmyard friends and more! Fold out pieces for an at-home farm experience that encourages imaginative play Learn as you go with simple concepts like counting, matching, and opposites. Increase visual thinking, fine-motor skills, and hand-eye coordination. Slip into a backpack or bag and make this a quick on-the-go activity. Great for summer activities, road trips, vacations, airplane rides, rainy days, inside activities, birthday gifts, and holidays. Officially licensed John Deere product
Big fun calls for big machines--just like the ones in this activity book! Enjoy over 100 action-packed activities and puzzles in one book, featuring favorite John Deere machines like the tractor, dump truck, and bulldozer! Lead the loader through the maze, help the excavator make its way through a busy construction site, or spot items out of place that don't belong on the busy farm. Through construction clutter, funny farms, material mix-ups, farm harvests, and the big dig, children will love following their favorite vehicles. Down the roads, through town, around the farm, and on the job-sites, the combine, excavator, and monster trucks are ready for adventures and completing fun activities as they go. This puzzle book of mazes, explore and find, spot the difference, hidden objects, and more will excite all little John Deere fans! Preschoolers and school-age children will love working through these games. John Deere Kids children's books recognize that the preschoolers of today are the farmers, builders, and innovators of tomorrow. Content and formats are based on the legacy of a long-loved company that encourages kids to play in backyards, to dig in the dirt, get muddy, and learn where food and shelter come from. Are you up for these mega jobs? Loaded with fun activities including search and find, coloring, drawing, activity puzzles, mazes, matching, doodling, counting, dot-to-dot, and more! Practice simple concepts like counting, matching, and opposites, while increasing logic, visual thinking, fine-motor skills, and hand-eye coordination skills Slip into a backpack or bag with some crayons or markers and make this a quick on-the-go activity and screen-free entertainment for kids Designed for a variety of age levels, Mega Machines can be enjoyed by preschoolers, kindergartners, and school-age children. Young children, 4-6 will enjoy drawing, mazes and matching, and following visual interaction, while older children 6-8 can enjoy reading the prompts and following simple directions to complete the challenges and activities. Thick pages allow for crayon or marker interaction without tearing the page. Answer key located in the back.
In this work of creative nonfiction, author Kate Benz provides an intimate look at the present-day residents of Courtland, Kansas (population 285), a town whose economy depends almost entirely on agriculture. Through charming, first-person accounts, Nothing but the Dirt: Stories from an American Farm Town tells the whole story of life in Courtland, bucking the “Rural America is dying” narrative that so often proliferates national headlines about small-town USA. Throughout the book, Benz paints a picture of community that is unwilling to give up on each other. Macro-level issues such as rising tariffs, operation costs versus sinking commodity prices, and infusions of federal farm subsidies affect the locals’ daily livelihood, but it’s their love of their community that continues their collective efforts to keep Main Street open for business and Courtland on the map. These are the stories from one corner of rural America, told through the people who live there: the fourth-generation farmers, the young professionals, the transplants, the small business owners (many of whom are women)—a community that is nuclear, blended, straight, gay, red, blue, religious, and anything but. Young people who grew up in Courtland are moving back to raise their kids there, but instead of farming, they are opening breweries, boutiques, marketing agencies, or hair salons. They love rural life but want a new way to define it. Courtland is a community that is unwaveringly determined to keep their corner of rural America not only alive but thriving, refusing to let challenges define or deter them. Instead, they continuously find creative ways to overcome, adapt, improve, and move forward.
“Mrs Murphy’s fourth caper will be lapped up like half-and-half by the faithful.”—Kirkus Reviews “The best yet.”—Publishers Weekly The residents of tiny Crozet, Virginia, thrive on gossip, especially in the post office, where Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen presides with her tiger cat, Mrs. Murphy. So when a belligerent Hell’s Angel crashes Crozet demanding to see his girlfriend, the leather-clad interloper quickly becomes the chief topic of conversation. Then the biker is found murdered, and everyone is baffled. Well, almost everyone . . . Mrs. Murphy and her friends, Welsh corgi Tee Tucker and overweight feline Pewter, haven’t been slinking through alleys for nothing. But can they dig up the truth in time to save their humans from a ruthless killer? “If you must work with a collaborator, you want it to be someone with intelligence, wit, and an infinite capacity for subtlety—someone, in fact, very much like a cat. . . . It’s always a pleasure to visit this cozy world.”—The New York Times Book Review
"A gleeful, poetic book…Like the best natural histories, Dirt is a kind of prayer." —Los Angeles Times Book Review "You are about to read a lot about dirt, which no one knows very much about." So begins the cult classic that brings mystery and magic to "that stuff that won't come off your collar." John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Saint Phocas, Darwin, and Virgil parade through this thought-provoking work, taking their place next to the dung beetle, the compost heap, dowsing, historical farming, and the microscopic biota that till the soil. Whether William Bryant Logan is traversing the far reaches of the cosmos or plowing through our planet’s crust, his delightful, elegant, and surprisingly soulful meditations greatly enrich our concept of "dirt," that substance from which we all arise and to which we all must return.
“The cadence of Rominger’s narrative style is soundly evocative of the world she brings to life in The Rangity Tango Kids. Growing up on a California farm riding horses and motorcycles, Rominger figured out where her heart was. The rich story of how to be a great family, to overcome challenges together, and to win in the end is one you won’t want to miss.” —ROBERT REDFORD “From the ground it looks like a falcon flies in circles. It actually rises flying over the same territory to a new, higher level. Rominger’s life and charming book are like this. She was born to a traditional, religious, farm family with the kind of old-fashioned values and principles politicians rant about and rarely practice. Lorraine’s story melds the best of true conservatism, neither Right nor Left, with a huge human heart. I loved this book.” —PETER COYOTE The Rangity Tango Kids is the story of a fifth-generation, German Catholic farm family in 1950s and 1960s California, narrated by the eldest of 17 grandchildren. Born into a loving, hard-working, highly competitive family, and united by a strong faith, every day was an adventure growing up on a bucolic American farm, a way of life that is rapidly disappearing. The land provided her, her siblings and cousins with a sense of place, an upbringing steeped in rituals and traditions that was in stark contrast with the values and preoccupations of the outside world. When the Rangity Tango Kids’ coming-of-age rebellion ran wild, they were often tangled up in the family’s strict morals and values. Regardless of the situation or conflict, the kids were surrounded by a swarm of loving relatives who put their arms around them and stuck together, no matter what.
