Fall at the Fair! Books about farms and animals for young readers

Enjoy this list of fall and fair titles for young readers that follows the theme for our SweetBean Reading Challenge in August!

Updated July 24, 2024
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Aven Green, baking machine
Bowling, Dusti
Paper Book
Now that third-grader Aven Green has retired from sleuthing, it's time to conquer a whole new world: baking! Aven knows she's an expert baker of cakes and cookies since she's been baking with her mom for a really long time. Plus no one bakes quite like she does. She cracks...
The Boxcar children beginning : the Aldens of Fair Meadow Farm
MacLachlan, Patricia.
Paper Book
Before they were the Boxcar Children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden lived with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm. Although times are hard, they're happy-"the best family of all," Mama likes to say. One day, a blizzard hits the countryside, and a car is stranded on the road near their farm....
I like the farm
Rotner, Shelley
Paper Book
Children share their love for farm animals in a hard-to-find Guided Reading Level A nonfiction reader from an award-winning photographer."I like the pig . . . I like the piglet." Simple, joyful text accompanies Shelley Rotner's vibrant and heartwarming photographs of children and animals on the farm...
Old Mikamba had a farm
Isadora, Rachel
Paper Book
Old Mikamba had a farm, E-I-E-I-O. And on this farm he had a giraffe, a baboon and an elephant! Caldecott Honor winner Rachel Isadora has set the classic children's song 'Old MacDonald' on the plains of Africa, where Old Mikamba watches over a variety of animals on his game farm - from roaring lions...
Yasmin the farmer
Faruqi, Saadia
Paper Book
Yasmin and her family are going to the farm! When Farmer Tomás puts her in charge of the baby chicks, Yasmin is thrilled! But then a baby chick goes missing. Can Farmer Yasmin bring the flock back together?

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