Little Joe stays on his aunt's farm and learns to overcome his fears of the animals and of being away from home. Full-color illustrations.

During the first night he has ever spent away from home, Joe helps his uncle with a sheep and her new baby lamb, and finds that comforting the animals helps lessen his own fear.

Farmer Joe returns to the stage in this colourful new reader! Farmer Joe is baby-sitting three-year-old Jennifer -- and he's never done anything quite so complicated! He's been given a list of instructions about games, snacks, fresh air... and a nap. Jennifer must have an afternoon nap, and she never falls asleep without her blanket. But at nap time, the blanket is nowhere to be found! After an exhausting search all over the farm, Jennifer quietly solves the problem herself... This classic Farmer Joe story returns in a bright levelled reader format for a new generation of book lovers!

"Down on the farm of Poor Old Joe, the hens won't lay and the crops won't grow." Thanks to the bestselling team of Tony Mitton and Guy Parker-Rees, Farmer Joe soon realizes that the way to liven up the farm is through music. With the help of his instrument-playing friends, Farmer Joe soon has the hens clucking, the pigs hoofing, and the cows mooing to a hillbilly music show. And now, "...down on the farm of Clever Old Joe, the hens all lay and the crops all grow."

Rodale was founded on the belief that organic gardening is the key to better health both for us and for the planet, and never has this message been more urgent. Now, with Organic Manifesto, Maria Rodale, chairman of Rodale, sheds new light on the state of 21st century farming. She examines the unholy alliances that have formed between the chemical companies that produce fertilizer and genetically altered seeds, the agricultural educational system that is virtually subsidized by those same companies, and the government agencies in thrall to powerful lobbyists, all of which perpetuate dangerous farming practices and deliberate misconceptions about organic farming and foods. Interviews with government officials, doctors, scientists, and farmers from coast to coast bolster her position that chemical-free farming may be the single most effective tool we have to protect our environment and, even more important, our health.

Young children's fiction-suitable for children learning word or letter recognition.

Farmer Joe goes into the city.