The farmer plants
early in the spring.
He'll be lucky
if he harvest a thing!

So begins this charming story in verse about the running battle between a farm family and the mischievous animals that plunder their fields. Crows peck at freshly sown seeds, ducks eat new strawberry plants, rabbits nibble on tender lettuces, and raccoons dine on ears of ripening corn. All summer long the young farmer and his wife are hard-pressed to protect their growing crops.

But autumn comes at last, and—surprisingly, after all the animals' feasting—there is still a lot left over for the farm's human inhabitants. In fact, there's a plentiful harvest to bring in—bushels of red tomatoes, a cellar full of apples for cider and pumpkins for pie, and a fat turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.

In rollicking verse and bright pictures Dahlov Ipcar tells of all the hard scrabbling that goes into making a bountiful fall harvest.

From the dust jacket