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22) Lambslide
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A flock of lambs mishears the word "landslide" as "lambslide" and begins a campaign to have one built for them on the farm.
23) Farm dogs
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Describes the characteristics of farm dogs and explains the types of tasks they perform. Includes color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.
24) Sheep in a jeep
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Rhyming story about the misadventures of a group of sheep that go riding in a jeep.
27) The haymeadow
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Fourteen-year-old John Barron is asked, like his father and grandfather before him, to spend the summer taking care of their sheep in the haymeadow. Six thousand sheep. John will be alone, except for two horses, four dogs, and all those sheep.
John doesn't feel up to the task, but he hopes that if he can accomplish it, he will finally please his father. But John finds that the adage "things just to sheep" is true when the river floods,...
John doesn't feel up to the task, but he hopes that if he can accomplish it, he will finally please his father. But John finds that the adage "things just to sheep" is true when the river floods,...
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Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, his family have lived and worked in the Lake District of Northern England for generations, further back than recorded history. It's a part of the world known mainly for its romantic descriptions by Wordsworth and the much loved illustrated children's books of Beatrix Potter. But James' world is quite...
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Counting Sheep chronicles the struggle for survival of the wild Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep, a majestic emblem of American wilderness. Shot and produced over the course of twelve years, Counting Sheep captures the plight of the Sierra bighorn with dynamic interviews and exquisite footage - the first film ever of one of the most endangered mammals of North America.
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It's talent-show time on the farm, and the roosters and chickens are banding together in hopes of beating out their rivals, the sheep. Meanwhile, Shirley, a sheep whose flair for singing is as large as her frame, has a big problem--a massive case of stage fright. Can Shaun the sheep convince his jittery friend to wow the mole judges and take home the prize?
32) San Miguel
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The lives of three women on turn-of-the-20th-century San Miguel are shaped by ambition and circumstance, including the wife of a Civil War veteran who hopes to recover her health, her rebellious aspiring actress daughter and a librarian who wonders if the island's peace will endure in the face of looming war.
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"At S.U.I.T. headquarters, Cilantro the Chameleon finally gets what she's been waiting for: a field assignment. Only...it's literally out in the middle of a field, and her orders are so vague, she can hardly tell what she's supposed to be investigating. But as she begins to uncover a sheep-led worker's rights revolt and an alien invasion conspiracy--not to mention a spooky haunting at the abandoned S.U.I.T. field outpost--Cilantro steps into her own...
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"The New York Times bestselling author of The Shepherd's Life chronicles his family's farm in England's Lake District across three generations, revealing through this intimate lens the profound global transformation of agriculture and of the human relationship to the land"--
39) Sheep on a ship
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Sheep on a deep-sea voyage run into trouble when it storms and are glad to come paddling into port.
40) Cuerpo de nube
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"Un corderito diferente. Su cuerpo no tiene lana, sino una nube. Una conmovedora historia para grandes y pequeños, sobre la aceptación de las diferencias y que ayuda a afrontar la pérdida de un ser querido. Porque muchas veces lo que nos ocurre es una oportunidad para crecer y para aprender de las circunstancias que nos toca vivir." --From publisher's description.
Kor Derito is a lamb with a cloud where other lambs have wool, so he is often by...