The Magic Ball of Wool
The Magic Ball of Wool

Author: Susanna Isern

Publisher: Cuento de Luz

Published: 2013-09-10

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 841561991X

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Winner at the 2013 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards. A magic ball has mysteriously appeared and will help to weave the most beautiful friendship between the animals of the forest. One morning, a hedgehog wakes up to find a mysterious ball of wool caught in his prickles. Why would he want a ball of wool?, he wonders in dismay. His friend the spider, who was an expert knitter, encouraged him to start knitting, teaching him all the keys and secrets to making a perfect sweater. Fascinated, all of the forest animals come to his house and the hedgehog happily knits something for each of his visitors. CLICKETY-CLICK, CLICKETY-CLICK... A stitch here, a stitch there... When the hedgehog stops knitting, he realizes something amazing—the ball of wool is magic! A charming tale of friendship, generosity and kindness that will bring out the best in young readers by encouraging them to help others.

Dust
Dust

Author: Hugh Howey

Publisher: John Joseph Adams

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 0544838262

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Wool introduced the world of the silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall.

Three Balls of Wool
Three Balls of Wool

Author: Henriqueta Cristina

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781592702206

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With three balls of wool and lots of ingenuity, this mother gets down to work and sparks a small revolution.

Shift
Shift

Author: Hugh Howey

Publisher: John Joseph Adams

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 579

ISBN-13: 0544839641

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In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platform that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same moment in humanity's broad history, mankind had discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the ability to forget it ever happened. This is the sequel to the New York Times best-selling Wool series.

Wool
Wool

Author: Peggy Hart

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing

Published: 2017-11-28

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780764354311

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Keeping people warm for four centuries, wool has been an essential commodity from colonial times to the present. This book tells wool's colorful and surprisingly epic tale and how it has impacted millions of lives from immigrants, slaves, Native Americans, to farmers and advertisers. Author Hart reveals little-known but fascinating facts about US society--for example, how huge flocks of sheep were driven to the California gold fields to feed hungry miners, and why sheep grazed on the White House lawn during World War I. Moving from the realms of handcrafted artisanry to industrialization and back, Wool is a story of technological and social change, marketing forces, and above all, consumer choices. A must-read for anyone who has knitted socks, woven a tapestry, or curled up with a warm wool blanket.

The Knitter's Book of Wool
The Knitter's Book of Wool

Author: Clara Parkes

Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780307352170

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In this complete guide to wool, passionate wool expert Parkes translates the vast world of sheep and their wool into the language and context of knitting.

Vanishing Fleece
Vanishing Fleece

Author: Clara Parkes

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1683356829

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The renowned knitter shares her year-long adventure through America’s colorful, fascinating—and slowly disappearing—wool industry. Join Clara Parkes as she ventures across the country to meet the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting needles would be empty, our mills idle, and our feet woefully cold. Along the way, she encounters a flock of Saxon Merino sheep in upstate New York, tours a scouring plant in Texas, visits a steamy Maine dyehouse, helps sort freshly shorn wool on a working farm, and learns how wool fleece is measured, baled, shipped, and turned into skeins. In pursuit of the perfect yarn, Parkes describes a brush with the dangers of opening a bale (they can explode), and her adventures from Maine to Wisconsin (“the most knitterly state”) and back again. By the end of the book, you’ll be ready to set aside the backyard chickens and add a flock of sheep instead.

The Silo Series Collection
The Silo Series Collection

Author: Hugh Howey

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2020-05-19

Total Pages: 1925

ISBN-13: 0358512913

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For the first time ever, The Silo Saga Omnibus brings together all of the work in Hugh Howey's ground-breaking, best-selling, acclaimed series, including the individual novels Wool, Shift, and Dust, as well as original essays by the author, and a bonus chapbook of short fiction, Silo Stories The remnants of humanity live underground in a vast silo. In this subterranean world, rules matter. Rules keep people alive. And no rule is more strictly enforced than to never speak of going outside. The punishment is exile and death. When the sheriff of the silo commits the ultimate sin, the most unlikely of heroes takes his place. Juliette, a mechanic from the down deep, who never met a machine she couldn’t fix nor a rule she wouldn’t break. What happens when a world built on rules is handed over to someone who sees no need for them? And what happens when a world broken to its core comes up against someone who won’t stop until things are set to right? Their world is about to fall. What—and who—will rise?

Raw Material
Raw Material

Author: Stephany Wilkes

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780870719516

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"In Raw Material, Stephany Wilkes tells not only her own story, but also that of American wool. What begins as a knitter's search for local yarn becomes a dirty, unlikely, and irresistible side job. Wilkes become a certified sheep shearer and wool classer, working at the very first step in the textile supply chain, ultimately leaving her high-tech job for a new way of life considered long dead in the American West."--Provided by publisher.

Little Lamb, Have You Any Wool?
Little Lamb, Have You Any Wool?

Author: Isabel Minhós Martins

Publisher: Owlkids

Published: 2012-03

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781926973142

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A boy asks his friend the lamb for wool so he can make himself warm clothing for winter, and the lamb is always willing to help.