Phoebe Dunn - The Little Lamb

Text copyright 1977 by Judy Dunn Spangenberg. Photographs copyright 1977 by Phoebe Dunn. Copyright renewed 2005 by The Phoebe Dunn Collection, LLC. All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House Childrens Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. There were twenty newborn lambs in the flock, and Emmy couldnt wait to see them. There were twenty newborn lambs in the flock, and Emmy couldnt wait to see them.

All the lambs had long, wobbly legs and little pointed hooves. Most of them were white, but a few were black. Emmy stood on a rock and watched them follow their mothers into the barn. Mother sheep usually keep their babies close to them. But one little white lamb wandered away from the flock. Baa-baa-baa, he cried. Baa-baa-baa, he cried.

Emmy jumped off the rock and the little lamb ran right up to her. Mrs. Wetherbee asked Emmy if she would like to take care of the lamb until he was big enough to come back to the flock. He had a twin brother, and their mother did not have enough milk for two babies. Emmy was so happy she bent over and kissed the little lamb. He was cuddly and warm, and she could feel his heart beating. He was cuddly and warm, and she could feel his heart beating.

Emmy decided to call her lamb Timothy. That evening Emmy heated milk for her lamb. She sat down under the maple tree and gave him his bottle. At first he wiggled and chewed the rubber nipple. Warm milk dripped all over Emmy. Emmy was a good mother to Timothy. Emmy was a good mother to Timothy.

She fed him twice a day and gave him plenty of love. Soon Timothy followed Emmy wherever she went. By summertime the little lamb didnt need to drink milk from a bottle anymore. He was big enough to eat grain out of a dish. His fleece had grown thick and woolly. He slept in the barn, curled up in the warm straw outside the horses stall. On sunny summer days, Emmy and Timothy went to the fields together. While they played hide-and-seek, Midnight the cat chased after bumblebees. Emmy would hide in the tall grass. But sooner or later, Timothy always found her.