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by Janet Lunn
Kim LaFave (illustrator)
Amos was old and Amos was cold and Amos didn't want to relinquish his woolly coat to the farmer's wife to make a warm sweater for her husband!
After the shearing, Amos makes several failed attempts to get the sweater his wool has become. One night as Amos sulks in his stall, he sees, and seizes, the opportunity to bolt through an open door into the house and unceremoniously retrieve the farmer's comfy-knit sweater. No matter that the whole process unravels the farmer's prize, Amos triumphantly sports the frazzled sweater (with its welcome warmth). At the sight of him, the farmer's wife muses with her husband that perhaps the old sheep is cold and finally an understanding dawns. Kim LeFave's illustrations are perfect for the colour and the-all-at-loose-ends nature of wool/yarn. Such a fun story highlighting the relationship between humans and the farm animals to whom we owe so much! The vision of a besweatered happy Amos sitting in the field lingers long after the page is turned.
You might also enjoy another of Lunn's picturebooks about a lady who buys some hens and ducks - she enthusiastically embraces their bounty until she is overrun with her blessings of eggs and feathers...'Duck Cakes for Sale'! Great Canadian talent in both of these fun reads.
ISBN: 0-88899-208-4