If you want to feel grateful for our modern-day ease, just read this book! The wonderful illustrations help young and old readers alike to glimpse the time and labor involved in living in earlier days. Families relied on each other to survive! No wonder more families stuck together! We see a bag of wool sheared from his sheep in April, and how his wife "wove the wool on a loom from yarn spun at the spinning wheel from sheep sheared in April." We also learn how the daughter helps with the family income by knitting 5 pair of mittens from the sheep's wool, as well.
With charming photos, this is a book to help grow your gratitude and appreciate how those whose lives we've built upon were so filled with hard work!
(New York: The Viking Press, 1979)
