A paper reprint of the 1982 agricultural history of Eastern Washington and the McGregor operations. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Even though we will devote a third of our lives to sleep, we still know remarkably little about its origins and purpose. Paul Martin's Counting Sheep answers these questions and more in this illuminating work of popular science.
Our fortunes were once founded on sheep, and this book tells a story of wool and money and history, of merchants and farmers and shepherds, of English yeomen and how they got their freedom, and above all, of the soil.
Callie Vee and Travis help animals big and small in this illustrated chapter book series for younger readers. In this second book in the Calpurnia Tate, Girl Vet series, Callie takes a hands-on approach to animal doctoring.
Essential reading for naturalists and conservationists. Highly recommended".--Library Journal.
One cold dark night when Sam can’t sleep, her mum suggests that she counts some sheep.
Count down to bedtime with five sleepy little sheep!
“Late last night I lay in bed and found I couldn’t sleep. So I scrunched my eyes up tightly and counted woolly sheep.” In this amusing bedtime story, a little girl decides she must count sheep in order to fall asleep.
When three little kittens cannot sleep their mother suggests they count sheep, so all three set out to find some to count.
When Axel Lindén leaves his literary life in the city for the farm he unexpectedly inherits—along with the ever-escaping flock of sheep that comes with it—he has a fairly naïve notion of what farm life will be: pure drudgery.
Counting sheep is supposed to help you sleep—but a room full of yaks, alpacas, and llamas would keep anyone awake in this counting book with a comical twist. Winner of the Mathical Book Prize!