Book Review: Shearing Day on the Dean Farm (sheep and a sheepdog, too!)

Shearing Day on the Dean Farm, by Roxanne Dean (Palmetto Publishing, 2024, 26pp PB and HC [$18.99], to age 12) Review by Skye Anderson

A lovely adjunct to the children's book The Yarn Fairy (the previous review) is Shearing Day on the Dean Farm by the prolific* writer Roxanne Dean. We simply love some of the illustrations, like the back cover. Watercolor flowers are especially lovely.

A Sheepdog in Action

Watch Bo the sheepdog fly into action as he guides the sheep into a pen to be sheared. After the shearing, Bo is content to watch over his flock.

The author's grandson gets in on the action, too, as he learns why sheep are sheared: because summer is coming on and sheep will be cooler without an additional six pounds to carry around. Also, it is fortunate that we can use the wool.

Baby Lambs

Baby lambs are seen as they frolic with the newly-shorn sheep and the wool is cleaned, processed, spun and knitted into mittens and scarves and socks.

 Other books by author Roxanne Dean include Sheila the Sheep Goes to the Spa,

The Sheep of Celtic Herd: What are Ewe Thinking?

and dog books, Lenny the Bulldog Goes to the Beach: The Bully on the Beach 

and Junior and Bobo, the Beach Bulldogs - Let Sleeping Dogs Lie.