Big Bear, having outgrown his very favorite sweater, reluctantly passes it down to Little Bear, but when Little Bear gets the sweater wet and muddy, Big Bear gets angry and later regrets his behavior.
Yetsa spends several happy Saturdays helping wash, tease, and spin wool fleece into yarn which her grandmother, one of the Coast Salish people, then knits into wonderful, distinctive sweaters.
Determined to win a trophy of some kind, first-grader Roscoe swaps a hand-knitted sweater from his grandmother for the chance to enter his new neighbor's very clever dog in a trick contest.
Traces the process by which wool is grown on sheep, cut, sorted, cleaned, dyed, spun into yarn, and knitted into sweaters. Includes directions for making a lamb out of wool and felt.
Cameron hates the sweater that his grandmother knit for his birthday, until she visits and tells him the special meaning behind its design. Includes instructions for knitting a similar sweater.