Arthur Geisert

On today's farm, B is for barn cat... E is for erosion... G is for grinding feed, and I is for... inoculate? In 26 beautifully detailed spreads, acclaimed illustrator Arthur Geisert takes readers on a literal journey following a real road in Iowa (County Road Y31) through the ins and outs of America's farmland. This isn't your grandfather's farm book. It still features pigs, hay, and other familiar farm residents, but you'll see a very different kind...

For Thanksgiving Day, the fourteen pigs in the Jambonneau family trim their trees to look like turkeys, but wake up one morning to find they have all been stolen.

Retells the familiar Bible story, using etchings as illustrations, and vividly depicting life inside the ark.

Told by his parents that his light must be out at eight o'clock, a young piglet who is afraid of the dark devises an ingenious solution to the problem.

Rumpus Ridge, Wisconsin is proud to have the biggest ball of string in the world, so when they lose their treasure to a nearby town they devise a clever plan to get it back.

How does a small town in Iowa deal with an abundance of pumpkins, just as Halloween approaches?

See how a community of pigs makes ingenious use of a giant dandelion seed, just as an erupting volcano threatens their island.