Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom Ag-Related Books for Children and Young Adults Farm Machines Alborough, Jez, The Gobble Gobble Mooooooo: Tractor Book, Kane/Miller, 2010. (Grades PreK-2) While Farmer Dougel is still asleep one morning, Sheep and his friends find the perfect opportunity to have fun with a tractor. Aldrich, Lisa J., Cyrus McCormick and the Mechanical Reaper (American Business Leaders), Morgan Reynolds, 2002. (Grades 3-6) Because of his dislike for fieldwork, especially harvesting grain, McCormick's life work was dedicated to developing a successful mechanical reaper, and, as a result, building a successful manufacturing empire. Black and white photos and period sketches with brief captions add to the text. Bridges, Sarah, I Drive a Tractor (Working Wheels), Picture Window, 2007. (Grades PreK-2) Modern tractor technology, structure and operation, including tractor safety information, including a slow-moving tractor sign and what it signifies. Includes a vocabulary list. Collins, David R., Pioneer Plowmaker: A Story About John Deere, Hobar, 2001. (Grades PreK-3) Farmers in the mid 1880s complained that the moist soil of the Midwest US stopped their plows by sticking to the blades. John Deere was a young blacksmith who figured out how to make a steel plow that could clean itself. Doeden, Matt, Farm Tractor, Capstone, 2007. (Grades PreK-2) Early readers will learn how tractors work and about tractor components, modern tractor technology, structure and operation. Gilpin, Daniel, Food and Clothing (History of Invention), Facts on File, 2004. (Young Adult) Kalman, Bobbie, Tools and Gadgets, Crabtree, 1992. (Grades 4-7) Learn how to identify mystifying gadgets used in the past by farmers, millers, woodworkers, metal workers, printers and doctors. Macaulay, David, Mill, Graphia, 1989. (Young Adult) Macaulay pays tribute to the historically important mills of 19th Century New England. Using close-up pen-and-ink illustrations, he thoroughly explains the Yankee ingenuity that went into the elaborate process of running machines that were generated by the flow of water. He also examines the importance of the mill to one community's economic and social viability. Macaulay, David, The New Way Things Work, Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Peppas, Lynn, Vehicles on the Farm, Crabtree, 2010. (Grades PreK-3) Tour of the kinds of hardworking vehicles found on a farm. Uses images and text to introduce readers to combines, harvesters and other common farm vehicles. Rainmakers: A Photographic Story of Center Pivots, Groundwater Foundation, 2005. Examines the history and complexity of center pivot irrigation through instructive and beautiful photographs and shows how the technology helps producers nourish our world. Steig, William, Farmer Palmer's Wagon Ride, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1992. (Grades PreK-3) A porcine farmer and his hired hand (a jackass) experience a series of farcical misadventures. Recommend a book. Back to Ag-Related Books for Children and Young Adults Back to Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom is a program of the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry and the Oklahoma State Department of Education.