Hardcover
(Knopf Books for Young Readers, Jan. 17, 1995)
A Time magazine Top 10 Best Children's Book of the YearIllustrated in full color. This glowing picture-book celebration of rural life follows the changing course of nature over the year. A shaggy farm dog prances in January snow; a litter of pigs wallows happily in April mud; a choir of crickets trills beneath an August sky.