wool

An introduction to sheep raising and the many ways the wooly animal is useful to man.

Provides information about wool, explaining what it is, where it comes from, and how it is gathered, processed, and used.

After the shearer removes the winter coat from the sheep, the spinner, weaver, and knitter, each in turn, do their part to produce the wool sweater.

Farmer Brown shears his sheep and has their wool made into yarn, but after they beg to have it back he knits the yarn into sweaters for them.

When wolves steal the wool coats of three sheep, the sheep track down the wolves in order to get their wool back.

Describes how a sheep grows wool, and how that wool is processed, spun into yarn, and knitted into a sweater.

Lalo the lamb wants to have a bright sweater like the one the shepherd boy wears but Lalo has a very hard time washing, spinning, and dyeing his own wool.

Gives fun facts about wool, yarn, and sweaters. Suggests activities using wool.

Text and photographs follow two sheep shearers through their day of rounding up sheep, shearing them, and bundling the fleeces, and establish connections between the fleeces and the wool making up many articles of clothing.

Introduces the farming of sheep for wool, covering such aspects as shearing, lambs, sheep dogs, wool processing, farm maintenance, and the proper care of sheep.