In 1810s Massachusetts, young Mary Elizabeth Sawyer nurses a sickly lamb back to health and becomes the subject of a famous nursery rhyme. Includes facts about the real Mary, John Roulstone who wrote the rhyme, and Lowell Mason who set it to music.
year: 2011
call number/section: 1000
subjects: animals, infancy, juvenile fiction, farm life, massachusetts, lambs, schools, fiction, massachusetts, history, 1775-1865, juvenile fiction, fiction, 1783-1865