"Born in the Illinois Cornfields" is a non-fiction book about a young boy growing up during the Depression on an Illinois farm. The author paints vivid pictures in your head of what it was like to use an outhouse, milk the cows and work the cornfields with "real horse power."

You hear the sounds of a farm coming to life in the early morning—the roosters crowing, the birds chattering, the cattle calling, the horses horsing around. Getting up and getting going was an exciting time of day. The memorable smells—the barn on a zero-degree day, a newly plowed field, a fresh summer shower, the warning of a skunk, honeysuckle and the many blossoms people on a farm learn to distinguish. The indelible sights of the changing seasons, from the white of winter to the green of spring the gold of summer to the brilliant colors of fall; beautiful sunrises and sunsets; migrating birds in their formations; softly falling snow. The book brings back memories of days past and recreates those days for those who didn't live through them.