By Don Mitchell
Camden House Publishing, 1991
Growing UpCountry is Don Mitchell's third book chronicling the adventures and misadventures of settling into the country. In this, his latest work, he turns a knowing, mischievous eye toward the "costs and benefits" of raising children in rural isolation -- where the realities of birth and death on a sheep farm are not hidden; where farm chores are a part of each family member's daily routine; where self-reliance and creative thinking are survival tools.
This collection of essays attests to the ingenuity, realism, self-sufficiency, caring, and generous dose of good humor that life on a sheep farm has fostered in the Mitchell offspring.