Pelle's New Suit

Very disappointing. This book is abnormally small. If you want a book you can travel with and have little space then this book is for you. Otherwise, not a good choice for anyone wanting to read daily for their kids.

We love all of her books and buy them 1 at a time as we can afford them. In an age of big in your face pop up books and childrens books that make your eyes hurt these books are a wonderful find. As always the illustrations are beautiful - I read all the reviews first but few had actual specifics about the actual invdividual stories, so that's what I've done here. I hope it helps others know what wonderful books they are. I wish they were easier to find in Canada. Anyhow this book is about pelle a swedish boy who had a lamb of his own. As they both grow Pelle's clothes get too small. So he shears off all the sheeps wool and takes it to his one grandmother and asks her to card the wool for him. In exchange she needs her carrot patch weeded which he does for her. Then he takes it to his other grandmother and asks her to please spin the wool into yarn which she does in exchange for him tending her cows. Then he asks the painter for some dye to dye the yarn. He asks him to take the row boat over to the store for some supplies and offers him the change to buy his dye there. Then he dyes the wool himself and hangs it to dry. He asks his mother to weave the yarn into cloth for him which she does as he watches his little sister for her while she does it. He then takes it to the tailor and asks him if he will make a suit for him...since the tailor needs his hay and wood brought in and his pigs fed. Pelle does that for him, the tailor makes his suit, on Sunday Pelle puts it on and thanks his lamb very much for his suit! Heartwarming tale!!!

Pelle has outgrown his suit - just as his lamb has grown a new coat of wool. Pelle helps his grandmothers, his neighbor, his mother and the tailor. With their assitance and some work of his own Pelle is the proud owner of a new suit. This is a beautiful story of cooperation set in a time and place when such tasks as sheering your sheep and rowing your boat to shore for supplies are commonplace. Elsa Beskow's books never fail to deliver a good story combined with loving illustrations.

How I only wish life could still be. Pelle cuts his wool from his sheep, and through several barters of chores, has a suit made for him. Innocent. I believe this the best Beskow book. Ages2-6.

I bought this for my sons 6th birthday and he has read it every day since then-that is 1 1/2 months ago. Great reading-no villains-just one hero-Pelle

The illustrations alone make this book a prize in any child's library, but the story is wonderful as well. Pelle shows resourcefulness, confidence and integrity as he swaps his talents for those of others in order to have a new suit made from the wool he has shorn from his sheep.