Karen GoatKeeper's Blog - Posts Tagged "warm-as-wool"
"Nine Animals and the Well" and "Warm as Wool"
Warm as Wool
4 stars
Author: Scott Russell Sanders
Illustrator: Helen Cogancherry
Picture Ohio as dark woods, few towns, few people and mud roads. The Ward family is moving out into the wilderness in September just in time for winter. It is cold. The log cabin they build is drafty no matter how often they daub mud between the logs. They are cold in spite of wearing all their clothes and huddling by the fire.
Sarah Ward has a spinning wheel and a loom, but no sheep. She has stashed away money to buy sheep and waits for the opportunity. It comes.
The illustrations are excellent. They have a golden brown tint that brings out the pioneer feeling of the text and the story.
This story is based on fact. Information about the real Sarah Ward is at the end of the book.
Nine Animals and the Well
4 stars
Author/Illustrator: James Rumford
We take our numbers as always existing. We call them Arabic numerals. Our numbers began in India and migrated to the Arabs, the North Africans, the Europeans before arriving on our shores.
This text is based on counting beginning with one. It is a tale of nine animals, friends of the raja-king, going to his birthday party bearing gifts. Each animal joins another upping the count. A sidebar shows each iteration of that number.
The dilemma of the animals is what gift they can bring to one who has everything. Each in turn discards their gift for the one the next animal has. What happens to these discarded gifts is humorous.
The ending gift is more precious than any the animals had thought of.
All of the illustrations have an Eastern flair and brilliant colors. The animals are fantasy and so of odd colors. The story of the numbers at the end is interesting.
4 stars
Author: Scott Russell Sanders
Illustrator: Helen Cogancherry
Picture Ohio as dark woods, few towns, few people and mud roads. The Ward family is moving out into the wilderness in September just in time for winter. It is cold. The log cabin they build is drafty no matter how often they daub mud between the logs. They are cold in spite of wearing all their clothes and huddling by the fire.
Sarah Ward has a spinning wheel and a loom, but no sheep. She has stashed away money to buy sheep and waits for the opportunity. It comes.
The illustrations are excellent. They have a golden brown tint that brings out the pioneer feeling of the text and the story.
This story is based on fact. Information about the real Sarah Ward is at the end of the book.
Nine Animals and the Well
4 stars
Author/Illustrator: James Rumford
We take our numbers as always existing. We call them Arabic numerals. Our numbers began in India and migrated to the Arabs, the North Africans, the Europeans before arriving on our shores.
This text is based on counting beginning with one. It is a tale of nine animals, friends of the raja-king, going to his birthday party bearing gifts. Each animal joins another upping the count. A sidebar shows each iteration of that number.
The dilemma of the animals is what gift they can bring to one who has everything. Each in turn discards their gift for the one the next animal has. What happens to these discarded gifts is humorous.
The ending gift is more precious than any the animals had thought of.
All of the illustrations have an Eastern flair and brilliant colors. The animals are fantasy and so of odd colors. The story of the numbers at the end is interesting.
