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Kalman, Bobbie Lee, Su Youn Millen, C. M. Nelson, Robin Nicholson, Sue Orenstein, PeggyOrenstein, Peggy
Summary: The COVID pandemic propelled many people to change their lives in ways large and small. To keep herself engaged and cope with a series of seismic shifts in family life, lifelong knitter Peggy Orenstein set out to make a garment from the ground up: learning to shear sheep, spin and dye yarn, then knitting herself a sweater. Orenstein shares her year-long journey as daughter, wife, mother,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 921 OREMillen, C. M.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MILOrenstein, Peggy
Summary: The author sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, spinning, dyeing wool--and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ORECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ORENSTEIN, PEGGY ORECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio OrensteinKalman, Bobbie
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.31 KALNicholson, Sue
Summary: A Day on the Farm is a beautifully designed reader all about a day in the life of a farm, with eggs hatching, milking time for the cows, sheep shearing and lots of hungry baby animals! Children will love to find out about the animals on the farm, the work the farmer does and all the cute animal babies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2023
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Summary: Describes the steps in making a sweater, from shearing the sheep to putting on your new sweater.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 677.31 NELSummary: This classic anthropological study of a traditional Navajo family, the Neboyias, examines their lifestyle through the four seasons as they travel to each of their hogans-planting, sheepherding, harvesting, and weaving. The documentarist's style is natural and unobtrusive, allowing viewers to share in the Navajo world vision. Filmed in the Monument Valley, Canyon de Chelly, and Window Rock areas...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Lee, Su Youn
Summary: When Coco the chipmunk, who always shares her food, falls ill, her new friends come to care for her in the same way she taught them, in this heartwarming debut picture book inspired by a Korean greeting.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022