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...

This wordless tale depicts a community of pigs that suffer from the heat and go in search of ice despite the odds against them.

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.

Illustrations without words depict the enormous and complicated contraption that Mama Pig uses to get her little piglets clean.

Retells the familiar Bible story, noting how life went on inside the ark.

After surviving the Flood, Noah and his family settle in a sheltered valley with the animals they have saved and begin the glorious experience of repopulating the Earth.

As a young boy helps prepare etchings for sale at his grandfather's studio, he imagines himself as part of some of the pictures. Includes a description of how etchings are made.

Eight piglets wander off while their mother is still sleeping and enjoy a feast in a cornfield before she brings them home again. Story told with one word.

Ten pigs go on an adventurous quest. The reader is asked to find all ten of them, and the numerals from zero to nine, in each picture.

Describes, in brief text and illustrations, a year in the life of a river bank town and the many changes that occur throughout the seasons.