All links below are to printable portable document format (PDF) pages.
If you are interested in joining us please read over our letter to educators and AgEd schedule of events that went to local schools in our region for the details and events of the day.
To register please print and fill out our school registration form and send it to our office via email, regular mail or fax (802-889-3236).
Please utilize our resources & book list [see below] to have classroom discussions before or after the Fair with your students and if you would like them to have a fun activity while attending the fair please use our scavenger hunt cards. These can also be used for great conversation starters on the bus ride to the Fair!
We hope you will join us for an educational day in the country and enjoy a cold carton of milk from Booth Brothers to go with your lunch.
Ideas and Web Links:
Resources:
Yesteryear
Azarian, Mary. Farmer’s Alphabet.
Cooley, Oscar. When Grandpa Was A Boy.
Hastings, Scott E. & Geraldine S. Ames. The Vermont Farm Year in 1890.
Sloane, Eric. American Barns and Covered Bridges.
Sloane, Eric. Diary of an Early American Boy.
Zeigler, Phillip C. Storehouses of Time: Historic Barns of the Northeast.
And Everyone Would Sashay: the Remembrances of the Ed Larkin Contra Dancers.
Maple
Chall, Marsha Wilson. Sugarbush Spring.
Crook, Connie. Maple Moon.
Haas, Jessie. Sugaring.
Knowlton, Laurie Lazzaro. Maple Syrup From the Sugarhouse.
Lasky, Kathryn. Sugaring Time.
London, Jonathan. Sugaring Off Party.
Linton, Mary. Maple Syrup Book.
Metcalf, Rosamund. The Sugar Maple. Mitchell, Melanie. From Maple Tree to Syrup. Perrin, Noel. Amateur Sugar Maker. Rossiter, Nan Parson. Sugar on Snow. Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Sugar Snow.
Dairy and Oxen
Cronin, Doreen. Click Clack Moo Cows That Type.
Dubanevich, Arlene. Calico Cows.
Gibbons, Gail. The Milk Makers.
Hall, Donald. Milkman’s Boy.
Hall, Donald. Ox-Cart Man.
Leaf, Munro. Story of Ferdinand.
Lindbergh, Reeve. There’s a Cow in the Road.
Older, Jules. Cow.
Paterson, Katherine. Smallest Cow in the World.
Soutter Perrot, Andrienne. Cow.
Poultry
Andreae, Giles. Cock-a-Doodle-Do.
Bang, Molly. Goose.
Barton, Byron. Buzz Buzz Buzz.
Brett, Jan. Hedgie’s Surprise.
Dunn, Judy. The Little Duck.
Duvoisin, Roger. Petunia.
Ernst, Lisa Campbell. Zinnia and Dot.
Gibbons, Gail. Chicks & Chickens Ducks! Hazen, Barbara Shook. Turkey in the Straw. Hutchins, Pat. Rosie’s Walk. Jensen, Patricia, Be Patient Little Chick. Megyesi, Jennifer. Joy of Keeping Chickens. Polacco, Patricia. Just Plain Fancy. Reiser, Lynn. Surprise Family. Simont, Marc. Goose Who Almost Got Cooked. Stevens, Janet. Cook-a-doodle-doo! Stoeke, Janet. (any Minerva Louise books) Sykes, Julie. Dora’s Egg.
Fair
Bial, Raymond. County Fair.
Calhoun, Mary. Blue Ribbon Henry
Cooper, Elisha. Country Fair.
Gibbons, Gail. Country Fair.
Tudor, Tasha. Corgiville Fair.
Horses/Donkeys
Gibbons, Gail. Horses! Haas, Jessie. (any books about Beware)
Haas, Jessie. Hurry.
Haas, Jessie. Mowing.
Haas, Jessie. Uncle Daney’s Way. Henderson, Carolyn. Horse & Pony Book. Hobbie, Holly. Everything But the Horse.
Lange, Willem. John and Tom.
Petty, Kate. Horse Heroes. Polacco, Patricia. Mrs. Mack.
Pigs
Dunn, Judy. The Little Pig.
Ehrlich, Amy. Parents in the Pigpen, Pigs in the Tub.
Gibbons, Gail. Pigs.
McPhail, David. Pigs Aplenty Pigs Galore.
Numeroff, Laura. If You Give a Pig a Pancake.
Palatini, Margie. Piggie Pie.
Peck, Robert Newton. A Day No Pigs Would Die.
Peet, Bill. Chester the Worldly Pig.
White, E.B. Charlotte’s Web.
Wood, Don. Piggies. Wooster, Chuck. Living With Pigs.
Bees
Cole, Joanna. Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive.
Hogan, Paula. Honeybee.
Johnson, Sylvia A. A Beekeeper’s Year.
Krebs, Laurie. Beeman. Lecht, Jane. Honeybees.
Micucci, Charles. The Life & Times of the Honeybee.
Gibbons, Gail. Honey Makers.
Polacco, Patricia. Bee Tree.
Vegetables and Fruits/Apples
Aliki. Corn is Maize.
Azarian, Mary. Gardener’s Alphabet.
Bunting, Eve. Sunflower House.
dePaola, Tomie. Popcorn Book.
Ehlert, Lois. Growing Vegetable Soup.
Ehlert, Lois. Eating the Alphabet.
Hall, Zoe. It’s Pumpkin Time.
Hart, Avery. Kids Garden!
Houghton, Eric. Crooked Apple Tree.
Lerner, Harriet. What’s So Terrible about Swallowing an Apple Seed.
Lovejoy, Sharon. Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots.
Let’s Go to the Farm. (Video & book.)
Lindbergh, Reeve. Johnny Appleseed.
Micucci, Charles. The Life & Times of the Apple.
Priceman, Marjorie. How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World.
Stewart, Dianne. Gift of the Sun.
Wallace, Nancy. Apples Apples Apples.
Watson, Clyde. Applebet an ABC.
Watson, Clyde. Tom Fox and the Apple Pie.
Crafts and Cooking Blood, Charles. Goat in the Rug. Wilkes, Angela, Children’s Step by Step Cookbook.
Farm Life/Barn/Animals
de Paola, Tomie. Charlie Needs a Cloak.
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield. Understood Betsy.
Fleming, Denise. Barnyard Banter.
Galdone, Paul. Cat Goes Fiddle-i-fee.
Galdone, Paul. The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Graff, Nancy Price. The Strength of the Hills, a Portrait of a Family Farm.
Hall, Donald. The Farm Summer.
Herriot, James. (any of his books)
Jaspersohn, William. A Day in the Life of a Veterinarian.
Jaspersohn, William. Two Brothers.
Johnston, Tony. Yonder.
Kalman, Bobbie. In the Barn.
Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie. Farm of Her Own.
Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie. As Long As There Are Mountains.
Lambert, Beth. Farm Wife’s Journal.
Lewin, Ted. Fair.
Lewis, Kim. Floss.
Lewis, Kim. Emma’s Lamb.
Lewis, Kim. Friends.
Lewis, Kim. Just Like Floss.
MacLachlan, Patricia. All the Places to Love.
McGuire, Leslie. This Farm is a Mess.
McPhail, David. Farm Boy’s Year.
Moller, Carol. The History of Tunbridge World’s Fair.
Miller, Peter, Vermont Farm Women.
Euclid Farnham, History of the Tunbridge Fair
Sweet, Melissa. Fiddle-i-fee.
Tafuri, Nancy. Early Morning in the Barn.
Watson, Clyde. Father Fox’s Feast of Songs.
Westcott, Nadine Bernard. Skip to My Lou.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. (any of her books)
Yolen, Jane. Raising Yoder’s Barn.
All links below are to printable portable document format (PDF) pages.
If you are interested in joining us please read over our letter to educators and AgEd schedule of events that went to local schools in our region for the details and events of the day.
To register please print and fill out our school registration form and send it to our office via email, regular mail or fax (802-889-3236).
Please utilize our resources & book list [see below] to have classroom discussions before or after the Fair with your students and if you would like them to have a fun activity while attending the fair please use our scavenger hunt cards. These can also be used for great conversation starters on the bus ride to the Fair!
We hope you will join us for an educational day in the country and enjoy a cold carton of milk from Booth Brothers to go with your lunch.
Ideas and Web Links:
Resources:
Yesteryear
Azarian, Mary. Farmer’s Alphabet.
Cooley, Oscar. When Grandpa Was A Boy.
Hastings, Scott E. & Geraldine S. Ames. The Vermont Farm Year in 1890.
Sloane, Eric. American Barns and Covered Bridges.
Sloane, Eric. Diary of an Early American Boy.
Zeigler, Phillip C. Storehouses of Time: Historic Barns of the Northeast.
And Everyone Would Sashay: the Remembrances of the Ed Larkin Contra Dancers.
Maple
Chall, Marsha Wilson. Sugarbush Spring.
Crook, Connie. Maple Moon.
Haas, Jessie. Sugaring.
Perrin, Noel. Amateur Sugar Maker.
Lasky, Kathryn. Sugaring Time.
London, Jonathan. Sugaring Off Party.
Linton, Mary. Maple Syrup Book.
Metcalf, Rosamund. The Sugar Maple.
Dairy and Oxen
Aliki. Milk From Cow to Carton.
Cronin, Doreen. Click Clack Moo Cows That Type.
Dubanevich, Arlene, Calico Cows.
Gibbons, Gail. The Milk Makers.
Giblin, James Cross. Milk, The Fight for Purity.
Hall, Donald. Milkman is Boy.
Hall, Donald. Ox-Cart Man.
Krasilovsky, Phyllis. Cow Who Fell in the Canal.
Leaf, Munro, Story of Ferdinand.
Lindbergh, Reeve. There is a Cow in the Road.
Most, Bernard. Cow That Went Oink.
Older, Jules. Cow.
Paterson, Katherine. Smallest Cow in the World.
Rassmus, Jens. Farmer Enno and His Cow.
Rush, Ken. What about Emma?
Soutter Perrot, Andrienne. Cow.
Poultry
Andreae, Giles, Cock-a-Doodle-Do
Bang, Molly. Goose.
Barton, Byron. Buzz Buzz Buzz.
Bassett, Jeni. Chick is Trick.
Brett, Jan, Hedgie’s Surprise.
Chicken and the Egg.
Conrad, Pam. Rooster is Gift.
Dunn, Judy. The Little Duck.
Duvoisin, Roger. Petunia.
Ernst, Lisa Campbell. Zinnia and Dot.
Hazen, Barbara Shook. Turkey in the Straw.
Hutchins, Pat. Rosieis Walk.
Jensen, Patricia, Be Patient Little Chick.
Polacco, Patricia. Just Plain Fancy.
Potter, Beatrix, Jemima Puddleduck
Reiser, Lynn. Surprise Family.
Selsam, Elizabeth E. Egg to Chick.
Simont, Marc. Goose Who Almost Got Cooked.
Stevens, Janet. Cook-a-doodle-doo!
Stoeke, Janet. (any Minerva Louise books)
Sykes, Julie. Dorais Egg.
Tafuri, Nancy. Silly Little Goose!
Waddell, Martin. Farmer Duck.
Wormell, Mary. Hilda Henis Scary Night.
Zemach, Margot. Little Red Hen.
Fair
Alter, Judy. Meet Me at the Fair: Country, State, and World’s Fairs and Expositions.
Bial, Raymond. County Fair.
Calhoun, Mary, Blue Ribbon Henry
Cooper, Elisha. Country Fair.
Davidson, Michelle. Raggedy Ann at the Country Fair.
Easton, Patricia Harrison. A Week at the Fair: A Country Celebration..
Tudor, Tasha. Corgiville Fair.
Horses/Donkeys
Haas, Jessie. (any books about Beware)
Haas, Jessie. Hurry.
Haas, Jessie. Mowing.
Haas, Jessie. Uncle Daney’s Way.
Lange, Willem. John and Tom.
Petty, Kate. Horse Heroes.
Pigs
Dunn, Judy. The Little Pig.
Ehrlich, Amy. Parents in the Pigpen, Pigs in the Tub.
Gibbons, Gail. Pigs.
Lobel, Arnold. A Treeful of Pigs.
McPhail, David. Pigs Aplenty Pigs Galore
Numeroff, Laura. If You Give a Pig a Pancake.
Palatini, Margie. Piggie Pie.
Peck, Robert Newton. A Day No Pigs Would Die.
Peet, Bill. Chester the Worldly Pig.
White, E.B., Charlotte’s Web.
Wood, Don. Piggies.
Bees
Cole, Joanna. Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive.
Hogan, Paula. Honeybee.
Johnson, Sylvia A. A Beekeeperis Year.
Lecht, Jane. Honeybees.
Micucci, Charles. The Life & Times of the Honeybee.
Gibbons, Gail, Honey Makers.
Polacco, Patricia. Bee Tree.
Vegetables and Fruits/Apples
Aliki. Corn is Maize.
Azarian, Mary. Gardener’s Alphabet.
Bunting, Eve. Sunflower House.
dePaola, Tomie, Popcorn Book.
Ehlert, Lois. Growing Vegetable Soup.
Ehlert, Lois. Eating the Alphabet.
Farmer, Nancy, Runnery Granary
Gage, Wilson. Squash Pie.
Hall, Zoe. Itis Pumpkin Time.
Harrison, David L. Wake Up Sun!
Hart, Avery, Kids Garden!
Houghton, Eric. Crooked Apple Tree.
Lerner, Harriet. Whatis So Terrible about Swallowing an Apple Seed.
Lovejoy, Sharon, Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots.
Letis Go to the Farm. (Video & book.)
Lindbergh, Reeve. Johnny Appleseed
Micucci, Charles. The Life & Times of the Apple.
Nightingale, Sandy. Cider Apples
Priceman, Marjorie. How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World.
Stewart, Dianne. Gift of the Sun.
Wallace, Nancy. Apples Apples Apples.
Watson, Clyde. Applebet an ABC.
Watson, Clyde. Tom Fox and the Apple Pie.
Zagwyn, Deborah. Apple Batter.
Crafts and Cooking
Blood, Charles. Goat in the Rug.
Wilkes, Angela, Children’s Step by Step Cookbook.
Farm Life/Barn/Animals
Clymer, Eleanor. Horatio Goes to the Country.
Cook, Brenda. All About Farm Animals.
de Paola, Tomie. Charlie Needs a Cloak.
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, Understood Betsy
Fleming, Denise. Barnyard Banter.
Galdone, Paul. Cat Goes Fiddle-i-fee.
Galdone, Paul. The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Geisert, Bonnie & Arthur. Haystack.
Graff, Nancy Price. The Strength of the Hills, a Portrait of a Family Farm.
Hall, Donald. The Farm Summer.
Herriot, James. (any of his books)
Hunter, Anne. Possumis Harvest Moon.
Jaspersohn, William. A Day in the Life of a Veterinarian.
Jaspersohn, William. Two Brothers.
Johnston, Tony. Yonder.
Kalman, Bobbie. In the Barn.
Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie. Farm of Her Own.
Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie. As Long As There Are Mountains.
Lambert, Beth, Farm Wife’s Journal.
Lewin, Ted. Fair.
Lewis, Kim. Floss.
Lewis, Kim. Emma’s Lamb.
Lewis, Kim. Friends.
Lewis, Kim. Just Like Floss.
MacLachlan, Patricia. All the Places to Love.
McGuire, Leslie. This Farm is a Mess.
McPhail, David. Farm Boy’s Year.
Moller, Carol. The History of Tunbridge World’s Fair.
Miller, Peter, Vermont Farm Women
Euclid Farnham, History of the Tunbridge Fair
Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw. Farm Animals.
Ray, Mary Lynn. Arva and Arvilla.
San Souci, Daniel. Country Road.
Sweet, Melissa. Fiddle-i-fee.
Tafuri, Nancy. Early Morning in the Barn.
Thomsen, Ruth. Understanding Farm Animals.
Watson, Clyde. Father Fox’s Feast of Songs.
Westcott, Nadine Bernard. Skip to My Lou.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. (any of her books)
Windsor, Merrill. Baby Farm Animals.
Yolen, Jane. Raising Yoder’s Barn.
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