Hey, dear readers. This is the third week in the row that we have a wonderful book + a giveaway to tell you about. Hopefully we are giving you a few great Christmas gift ideas!
This week, I’m thrilled to tell you about an enchanting new book called Farm to Film: An Alphabetical Adventure told Throug the Eyes of An Old Lens, written an illustrated by Hannah Miles Pierrou.
This book is just so whimsical and fun! Each page is full of endearing images from the farm as seen through the eyes of a child as she is visiting her grandparents’ farm and chronicalling her visit by taking pictures throughout the day. This book really hits home for me as a former farm girl. Also, as I am writing this, my three big kids are visiting their grandparents’ farm in Iowa, and I have been receiving text messages with images of their favorite place, the farm.
Something that is also so lovely about this book is that it is an A-Z book, with an object for each letter of the alphabet.
GIVEAWAY! We have one book + one wooden camera set to giveaway to one of our readers. If you’d like to be entered into the giveaway, just leave a comment below. We’ll chooose a random winner on Wednesday, December 1st.
If at all possible, please let me know if purchasing this book is possible.
We are a family that has had a photography business since 1921.
I would love to share with my young grandchildren. Thank you!
Hi Mary Lou! That is amazing that your family has owned a photography business for that long! What is the name of your business? I’d love to look it up. Yes, you can purchase the book here.
I would love to have this book! I had farmers and a photographer in my family, and I myself love photography! Would look very to give this book to my daughter, who also loves farms and photography!
What an amazing book! It is so cute!
Such a lovely book! Thank you for sharing such fun and inspiring finds!
Hi Sarah! Thank you for your comment! Hope your Thanksgiving has been wonderful and that you got to be with family.
So excited.
Thank you for introducing this book to me. I would share this book with my little ones as we venture around our heritage farm. Would share with elder relatives who lived on a farm during their life span. Am requesting our library order this book so many may have this experience vicariously again. Mary
Thank you for your kind comment and for requesting this for your library. That is a great way to support an author!
We are just now taking over Grandma’s farm! Our children are super excited to enjoy the new freedoms of being out in nowhere! 😆. This book is one I’m going to have to get!
Wow! I’m so happy for you and for your children.
The freedom of living in the country is so valuable.
Just what I’ve seen brings back wonderful memories of my grandparents’ farm just outside the little town of Finchford, just a smidge southwest of Waverly, IA! Summer vacation spent there helping them was such a precious gift!
Memories…going to bed early so I could be up with grandpa when he milked cows or ride with my uncle on his milk route picking milk up from farmers to take in Carnation in Waverly and helping make hay when I was older.
Thanks for the “trip”!
Thank you for your lovely comment! I’m so glad that you have such wonderful memories of those precious times spent together. My kids are visiting their grandparents’ farm this week, and I know they are making lots of warm and good memories with grandpa and grandma.
I’d love to receive the book and camera! I, too, grew up on a farm and moved away when I married. Sadly, none of my immediate family still live on an Iowa family farm, although an uncle and his grown children and grandchildren do. My oldest son told his grandpa that he never wanted to be a farmer “it is too much work!”. He was about 7 years old at the time, but I miss farm-life nearly every day. (That son married a farmer’s daughter; he and his family are spending Thanksgiving on HER folk’s family farm!)
I’m thinking this would make a PERFECT gift for my sisters as well as OUR grandchildren!
I would be most interested in this book as well!
My son just graduated from college and is working on a small produce farm. It’s too adorable to see the owner’s 5 year old footin around and explaining the whole farm life, even down to edible plants-at 5!!
Wow! How cool! What an interesting and eduational childhood.
Sounds like you all have a beautiful farm heritage! 7 year olds say the funniest things.
This looks like a book my grandson would love! What and adorable book
My grandchildren who have not been raised in a rural area would find this very interesting.
Most definitely!
What a gorgeous book. Adults will love reading this to the littles in their life. If I am the lucky winner, I plan to give this to my sister’s grandkids.
Oh, the farm, a beautiful place to revisit memories!
I agree!
Happy Thanksgiving! I would absolutely LOVE this book to read and share:)
Looks like a wonderful book! This would be super for my niece’s family!
Thankyou for the opportunity to possibly win this awesome book. You guys inspire me with your recipes and your faith. Happy Thanksgiving. Blessing, Elaine
Thank you for reading The Gingham Apron and for your kind words. Happy Thanksgiving!
Oh I would love to win this book! My niece is a photographer and collects all things such. I will be buying a copy or two also! Love this!
Very cool!
I would love to share this book with my grandchild. He already loves the farm, but this will help us create special memories together.
I love that you have the desire to make new memories with him.
This is wonderful! I’m a special education teacher, and would be interested in purchasing the book if possible-that is, if I don’t win it, haha!
This would be great for a classroom!
This book brings back memories to me from when my children were young. I use to read to them, color with my children and do crafts. We use to live in the country and be able to enjoy the peacefulness and quiet when we were outside.
How wonderful to raise kids in the country. I love that.
What a lovely book to read, and have in my library for others to read. I did not grow up on a farm, but for several years my family lived in a farming community, and the farming families were always so gracious. Thank you in advance if I win the book. Happy Thanksgiving season to your family. God’s blessings. ❤ Mary
Thank you for your lovely comment, and we hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
I would love to have this adorable book to share with my grandchildren. They love our family farm and this book is just the cutest!
I just love to hear that you live on a farm and can share it with your grandkids.
Oh goodness! I’m so excited for such an amazing opportunity! I absolutely love following you. You are such a wonderful example of Godliness.
Thank you for giving me the chance to win this adorable book and camera!!
Jenn, your encouraging words really made my day and changed my attitude today for the better. Thank you for your lovely comment and for reading The Gingham Apron. Merry Christmas!
We would love to win this books. My kids and I Love great books
Even though my daughters are adults I set out a basket of children’s books that I change out with the seasons and holidays. Some are new, some were mine. Our farm has just received a PA Century Farm certification. This would be a beautiful addition to remember this event!
That’s so wonderful that you have a century farm! What a legacy! And I love that you put out a basket of books. I do that too and just filled it with Christmas books that we read each year.
What an awesome book! Would love to have it for my home!
Beautiful book!