Title: Mary and her little lamb
Description: In 1810s Massachusetts, young Mary Elizabeth Sawyer nurses a sickly lamb back to health and becomes the subject of a famous nursery rhyme. Includes facts about the real Mary, John Roulstone who wrote the rhyme, and Lowell Mason who set it to music.
Subjects: Sheep, History, Animals, Infancy, Schools, Farm life, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Animal babies, Lambs, Picture books for children, Nursery rhymes
Places: Massachusetts
Time periods: 1775-1865