About This Book
She came for one summer. She found a whole world.
The milk pail rings against the barn floor. Warm biscuits come out of Grandma’s oven. Blackberries stain her fingers purple, a rooster guards the yard like he owns the place, and somewhere past the back pasture a creek runs cool over a pair of bare feet. This is the summer Bean spends on her grandparents’ farm, and by the time it ends, nothing about her is quite the same.
In this first book of the Bean Basket Stories series, author Stacy Huddleston opens the gate on a warm Americana farm and a girl called Bean, who arrives knowing nothing about cows or gardens or goats, and leaves knowing she belongs. Each chapter is a small adventure, gentle and funny and true, the kind of ordinary summer day a child remembers for the rest of her life.
This isn’t a book about a faraway place no child could reach. It’s about a grandparents’ porch, animals with names, and the long golden days that shape us. Bean is every child who was ever handed a chore and found out it was really a gift.
Along the way, you’ll join Bean as she:
- Learns to milk a cow and gather warm eggs
- Bakes biscuits in Grandma’s kitchen
- Outwits a very ruthless rooster
- Hunts frogs, grasshoppers, and nightcrawlers by lantern light
- Rides a horse for the very first time
- Wanders barefoot down to the creek
- Discovers the wonders of the county fair
Each chapter pairs a real farm adventure with the warmth of a family that loves her, and closes on the quiet feeling of a day well spent. Whether it is read aloud at bedtime or read alone by a proud new reader, Bean’s first summer is one to grow up with.
Begin Book One of the Bean Basket Stories series today.
For young readers who love farm life, family stories, and the kind of summer you wish would never end.
About the Author
Stacy Huddleston is a Christian author and licensed clinical social worker whose writing flows from a deep, personal relationship with God. Drawing on years of walking alongside women through their hardest seasons, she writes with warmth, honesty, and a counselor’s understanding of the human heart. Her devotionals invite readers to slow down, return to Scripture, and rediscover how fully they are known and loved by the Father. She lives to remind women that they are never as alone as they feel.
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