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Chopping wood in the fall, hauling sap buckets in the spring, and weeding, hoeing, and weeding again in the summer--that is life on a farm in the North. It is also seven months of snow; a sloppy, impossible mud season; and hot days of haying. Why would anyone miss growing up in such a place? A love of life and a love of place shine through in Natalie Kinsey-Warnock's richly imagined prose. Illustrated with Mary Azarian's evocative woodcuts, this book reveals how chores lead straight to the best kind of fun: night-swimming in the pond, skiing off the barn roof, and finding new gray kittens in the haymow. And at story's end, readers age 5 to 9 from cities, towns, and country will ask themselves, 'What would we miss most about our home?'
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