Mountain Born

Mountain Born is about a very young boy and the lamb his mother saves from death. Peter, the boy, adopts the lamb and raises it by bottle from the day of its birth. The two become inseparable. They share many adventures with an older wise workhand named Benj. The book covers a span of seven years as Peter and his goat, Biddy grow up together. The story is interesting and describes life on a mountain sheep farm during the early 20th century. Peter's family live off the land, growing everything they need. Their clothing even comes from the wool of their sheep. Life is simple, requires hard work, and creates a strong bond between the humans and their animals. This is an endearing story of the cycle of life and a boy's growth into young manhood.

This was an enjoyable children’s story about a shepherd family. I learned things about shepherds that helped me understand the explanations in the Bible a bit more. This wasn’t an overtly Christian story though the Bible was mentioned as the only book that the old shepherd’s (he worked for the family the story was about) family owned. I recommend it but I feel many of today’s children won’t appreciate it as much. It made a nice read aloud though!

I read this to my 6 year old. Both of us enjoyed the story. There were a few parts I had to skim over (docking the sheep tail) b/c we are both sensitive. Overall a great story about growing up, gaining responsibility and seasons of life.

This was on a reading list for our home school reading. I was not so interested in reading it, but chose to make it a read allowed for my third grader as he still likes to be read to. We read a chapter a week making in our fall free reading. I believe I must of cried for at least ten minutes at the close of the book, but I throughly enjoyed reading it to my son He enjoyed it as much as last years book "Understood Betsy". What a beautiful coming of age book for young ones so full of family values, Christian values and life!

I read this book back in the mid-1960’s, when I was in 4th grade. It is just as beautiful and moving for me now as it was then, if not more so.

This was part of our history curriculum read alouds. My son who is 9 really enjoyed this book. It was an easy read and a beautiful coming of age story.

I love this book. I bought it since it was part of the Sonlight curriculum and their recommendations are nearly always excellent and this was no different. From the moment a little, presumed dead lamb is brought into the warm kitchen it had my attention and my heart.Definitely consider the sensitivity of your child's heart before you buy, knowing that things like death are explored in the book albeit very lightly. This is definitely a book to keep for years to come and to pass down.

Sweet coming-of-age story about a boy learning to be responsible for his own ewe and learning to tend his family's flock of sheep. I love Elizabeth Yates. This book taught some great historical and moral lessons! It had a lot of description which made it a slightly-slower read, but my 8 and 9 year olds and I still enjoyed it.

O livro é muito bom e a qualidade do papel é excelente. Ótimo para quem deseja praticar o inglês, ou conhecer melhor a história americana e apreciar contos de época.

Endearing story. My children really enjoyed this as a read aloud.