Catherine Friend
Author
Publisher
Marlowe & Company
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Farms have fences. People have boundaries. Mine began crumbling the day I knelt behind a male sheep, reached between his legs, and squeezed his testicles. This took place one blustery November day when I joined other shepherd-wannabes for a class on the basics of raising sheep. I was there with my partner Melissa, the woman I'd lived with for 12 years, because we were going to start a farm. When self-confessed "urban bookworm" Catherine Friend's partner...
3) Silly Ruby
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Four stories about the antics of a silly sheep named Ruby as she plays in the dirt, eats a cow's corn, makes too much noise, and knocks apples from a tree.
4) Funny Ruby
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Four stories about the antics of a silly sheep named Ruby as she picks flowers, jumps, eats hay, and plays with a friend.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
What do you do when you love your farm . . . but it doesn't love you? After fifteen years of farming, Catherine Friend is tired. After all, while shepherding is one of the oldest professions, it's not getting any easier. The number of sheep in America has fallen by 90 percent in the last ninety years. But just as Catherine thinks it's time to hang up her shepherd's crook, she discovers that sheep might be too valuable to give up. What ensues is a...