While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State. Almanzo and his brother and sisters help with the summer planting and fall harvest. In winter there is wood to be chopped and great slabs of ice to be cut from the river and stored. Almanzo wishes for just one thing--his very own horse--but he must prove that he is ready for such a big responsibility.

Second novel in the series. "Foreword by Ree Drummond"--Cover. "New hardcover, unjacketed edition of Farmer Boy, featuring new, iconic cover art, rough deckle-edged pages, no interior art, and a special foreword."--HarperCollins. First published in 1933. Includes excerpt from Little house on the prairie.