On the Farm with Harry -- BOOK 2 -- The Happy Farmer

About this book

On the Farm with Harry -- BOOK 2 -- The Happy Farmer is the sequel to On the Farm with Harry -- BOOK 1 --The Move. It's a chapter book -- Written for a parent/grandparent to read to a child with questions for interactive discussion at the end of each short chapter. A family of three (soon to be four), Mom, Dad and Harry (a boy just turning 5) moved from Chicago to a small family farm in Wisconsin. Harry now has a puppy to care for; Dad just bought a crate of baby chicks which gives Harry learning opportunities -- caring for the chicks as they grow -- the daily supply of food and water, locking the henhouse each night, gathering eggs as they become full-grown. Other chores need doing -- Dad and Harry plant a garden and now it needs tending.-- Harry is a big help, there as well. . But there are fun times, too. Harry's birthday party with new neighbor friends -- playing games, listening to Dad reading a book, eating popcorn, Mom and Dad are always encouraging Harry, and he is learning to be positive, thoughtful, courteous, determined, and responsible. The story is not a fantasy -- There are no Wizards, no Fairies, no Magic Portals, or Genies granting Wishes -- Instead, this story is a realistic fictional account of a modern-day family with Christian values who have decided to escape the roar of the big city -- to rear their children in rural America.: .