The day starts early, in overalls and boots, with a cow to lead in across a pasture still gold from the sunrise. My First Homestead Book of Chores follows real homestead kids from that first job to the last one: pinning sheets to the clothesline with Mom, riding the red tractor out with Dad to fix a fence, and finally settling in by the evening fire once the work is put away.

RuthAnn Zimmerman raises her own family on a 22 acre homestead in northeast Iowa, and it shows in every page. The work is real, the smiles are real, and so is the pride a kid feels when a chore is finished and done right. Little readers come away with simple ways to pitch in at home, whether or not there is a barn out back, which makes it a gentle, encouraging read for the age when kids start asking to help.

Every book in the Hello, Tiny Homesteader series is an 8 by 8 inch, 32 page hardcover picture book for ages 4 to 8, told in full color photographs. Read it at bedtime, then hand them the laundry basket in the morning.

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