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Woolly Who Tried to Be Everything: A Funny Picture Book About Finding Where You Belong

Woolly Who Tried to Be Everything: A Funny Picture Book About Finding Where You Belong

Laclaire, Liora

Paperback

Series: Little Animals, Big Lessons

General Juvenile Nonfiction

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN13: 9798189961977
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.09 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Discover a heartwarming and funny children's picture book about self-acceptance, belonging, moral values, and finding your true place in the world.

Perfect for kids ages 3-8 who are learning to love themselves just as they are.

Woolly is a soft, fluffy little sheep with the kindest heart and the thickest, curliest wool. She lives on Sunnybrook Farm - a busy place where every animal has an important job. The chickens proudly lay eggs. The cow produces the farm's best milk. The strong horse pulls the cart. The dog races after geese like a serious detective. And the rooster wakes the entire farm every morning with a confident crow. But Woolly? She is the only sheep on the whole farm. In fact, she is the only sheep anyone there has ever seen.

Everyone loves Woolly. The kind farmer bottle-fed her when she was a tiny orphaned lamb and calls her my little cloud. Yet Woolly cannot stop comparing herself to the others. She looks at her long wool and thinks it is a problem. She listens to her strange little bleat and decides it must be wrong. She runs slower than everyone else because of her fluffy coat and feels embarrassed. She even notices that her ears get sweaty and wonders why she is so different.

Convinced that something is broken inside her, Woolly makes a brave decision: she will become useful just like the other animals. She marches to the henhouse and tries with all her might to lay an egg. She visits the cow and attempts to give milk. She charges after the geese, trying to be a guard dog. She climbs onto the fence at dawn to crow like a rooster. She grabs a rope with her teeth and tries to pull the cart. She even jumps into the pond to swim like the ducks. Each attempt ends in gentle chaos, laughter, and a few soggy disasters. The farm animals watch with kindness and quiet amusement as Woolly does her very best.

Exhausted and discouraged, Woolly sits alone under the big apple tree one evening and whispers to the stars that maybe she simply does not belong anywhere. That is when a wise old owl lands softly beside her. With a calm and loving voice, the owl helps Woolly see the truth she has been missing all along: nothing was ever wrong with her. She is not a broken farm animal. She is a northern sheep living on a southern farm - a sheep whose thick, warm wool is a precious gift in the right place.

Filled with new courage, Woolly says goodbye to the friends who raised her and begins a long journey north. As the air grows colder and the landscape changes, her once-troublesome wool suddenly feels perfect. It keeps her warm, strong, and light. At last she finds a mountain meadow full of sheep who look just like her. There, her special wool becomes the softest, warmest gift of all - keeping children cozy in the snow and filling Woolly's heart with quiet pride.

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