South Australia’s George the Farmer children’s book series — written, illustrated and printed in South Australia — is about to take the United States by storm after a momentous win for owner Simone Kain.

Penola-based author Kain first created the award-winning series in 2012 with now state upper house MLC Ben Hood after she struggled to find realistic and engaging agricultural content for kids.

The business was now 100 per cent owned by Kain who created the George the Farmer character that has had an overwhelmingly positive response in educating Australian school kids on “food and fibre”.

Kangaroo Cornfield — the 14 th picture book in the series — has been confirmed to be included in the United States National Agricultural Literacy Curriculum Matrix which is distributed through the

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