On Granddaddy's Farm

By Thomas B. Allen

The author relates the events from the 1930s when he and his cousins spent summers on their grandparent's farm in the hills of Tennessee. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394896130
• ISBN13: 9780394896137
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.3" x 10.7"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Granddaddy's Farm

While not growing up on a farm myself, I do live in the approximate area in which Thomas B. Allen's story, On Granddaddy's Farm, takes place. Allen has certainly captured the essence of the locales he mentions in the story. His words paint pictures and evoke the smells that one encounters on a farm. The characters bring to life all that a country family experiences during not only this time in history, but also in some aspects of today's fastly disappearing farm family. Granddaddy's insistance of the work ethic, Granny's always being there to watch over and provide for the children, the rhythm of the train's always dependable schedule all elicit the "protectiveness and dependence" of a time we all have enjoyed or longed to enjoy in our own lifetimes.