For all of you knitting mamas out there - here are two fantastic books to help teach your wee ones about where the beautiful wool you knit with comes from. I really enjoyed both of these books!
written by: Leda Schbert
pictures by: Andrea U'Ren
Synopsis: "Go from sheep-raising to sweater-making, with a mother and daughter who make a game of all the stages that lie between. From day to day, season to season, Mom is busy tending the family's small flock of sheep and then harvesting their wool to make yarn: shearing and washing, carding and spinning, dyeing and knitting. Every step of the way, her little girl is busy, too, questioning, teasing, and imitating. Filled with colour and coziness, Feeding the Sheep offers young knitters-to-be a fresh, fun look at husbandry and handicraft."
Amos's Sweater
written by: Janet Lunn
pictures by: Kim LaFave
Synopsis: "Amos was old and Amos was cold and Amos was tired of giving away all his wool." Amos is a sheep who tries very hard to avoid the inevitable shearing of his precious wool. When he sees his wool knit up into a sweater worn by Uncle Henry, he begins a campaign of violence against it, biting holes in it at every opportunity and even breaking out of the barn to pull it apart. It is an entertaining story that will leave you warm and cozy at the end, just like Amos.
I hope you can find these stories at your local library. They are well worth the read.
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