Melanie and Bret Fowler live a life far removed from the high definition text driven society we now live in. Theirs is a world where crops must be planted, grown and harvested. Chickens must have their eggs swiped from under them and Rosie the cow gets milked every morning. Still, summer vacation is the same everywhere when children are freed to run loose. Whether on a cigar tobacco farm in the Florida panhandle during the summer of 1963 or facing the complexities of 2010 children often are forced to grow up before they had wanted to. The Midget Green Swamp Moose explores these and other powerful life lessons, culminating in the decision by narrator Melanie that God is always at hand.