Come along as Poppin Johnny explores the USA! He discovers new friends and shares his jokes, stories, and laughter with planes, trains, and monster trucks! His imagination takes him on a journey during a ferryboat ride. He visits big construction machines. Sight-seeing in the big city, he encounters his first yellow taxi! Where will the most exciting trip of all take him? Ages 2-8+

Poppin Johnny Farm Tractor is a wise old tractor, who is the target of many jokes, must act fast to rescue his friend, Bulldozer from a terrible fate. He encourages Dump Truck Pete and Big Red to work with him as a team. Together they might have a chance to save their friend. Will they get there in time? Boys and girls will enjoy this delightful story.

One bright and shiny day, Poppin Johnny is wandering down a country lane, when he discovers the rustic old barn door has blown away!! He peeks inside the dark and scarry barn. What he finds sets his fenders shaking!! Poppin Johnny gathers his farm friends. Together as a team they work to save their new found friend from the recycler!! Who is in the giant wooden tub with all the bubbles? Ages 2-8+

R. Douglas Hurt's brief history of American agriculture, from the prehistoric period through the twentieth century, is written for anyone coming to this subject for the first time. American Agriculture is a story of considerable achievement and success, but it is also a story of greed, racism, and violence. Hurt offers a provocative look at a history that has been shaped by the best and worst of human nature. Here is the background essential for understanding the complexity of American agricultural history, from the transition to commercial agriculture during the colonial period to the failure of government policy following World War II. Complete with maps, drawings, and over seventy splendid photographs, this revised edition closes with an examination of the troubled landscape at the turn of the twenty-first century. It also provides a ready reference to the economic, social, political, scientific, and technological changes that have most affected farming in America and the contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and women. This survey will serve as a text for courses in the history of American agriculture and rural studies as well as a supplementary text for economic history and rural sociology courses.

Updated edition: “A balanced economic, social, political, and technological history of rural America . . . A splendid book, rich with detail.” —Agricultural History Review Through most of its history, America has been a rural nation, largely made up of farmers. David B. Danbom’s Born in the Country was the first—and is still the only—general history of rural America. Ranging from pre-Columbian times to the enormous changes of the twentieth century, the book masterfully integrates agricultural, technological, and economic themes with new questions about the American experience. Danbom employs the stories of particular farm families to illustrate the experiences of rural people. This substantially revised and updated third edition: • expands and deepens its coverage of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries • focuses on the changes in agriculture and rural life in the progressive and New Deal eras as well as the massive shifts that have taken place since 1945 • adds new information about African American and Native American agricultural experiences • discusses the decline of agriculture as a productive enterprise and its impact on farm families and communities • explores rural culture, gender issues, agriculture, and the environment • traces the relationship among farmers, agribusiness, and consumers In a new and provocative concluding chapter, Danbom reflects on increasing consumer disenchantment with and resistance to modern agriculture as well as the transformation of rural America into a place where farmers are a shrinking minority. Ultimately, he asks whether a distinctive style of rural life exists any longer in the United States. “A delightful story tracing the social history of U.S. farmers. The book details the attitudes and social life of farm people?how they looked at themselves and how the rest of society saw them.” —Forum

Whether it is winter, spring, summer, or fall, Merriweather Farm is beautiful at any time of year. Help Johnny Tractor find the correct scenery for each season by turning the wheel in the back of this board book!