Woolbur
By: Leslie Helakoski
Fiction
(free choice)
Woolbur is not like other sheep. He hangs out with wild dogs, cards his own wool to avoid the shearing barn, and even dyes his wool blue. "Don't worry!" says Grandpaa when Maa and Paa fret that Woolbur is different. Maa and Paa tell their son to follow the flock, but the opposite happens—the flock follows him!
Woolbur is a fun book, but in the end I think it teaches a valuable lesson. I would read this book aloud to my class, and then we would discuss as a group what they thought the main message of this book was. Hopefully, they would see that this book conveys the message that it is okay to be different and that we should celebrate people's differences instead of trying to change them into something they are not. I feel that this is an important lesson for people of any age to hear.
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