Ida and the Wool Smugglers Quotes

“Ida and her family live on an island farm off the west coast of Canada. One busy spring morning, Ida’s mother asks her to take some freshly baked bread to ...”

“Ida’s mother asks her to take some freshly baked bread to their neighbors. Ida’s brother thinks she’s too young to go alone. ”

“On one of those island farms, young Ida lived with her big brother, John, her little sister, Martha, and their mother and father.”

“John, Ida’s brother, thought she was too young to go alone. She wasn’t even big enough yet to help with the spring sheep run, an annul event at which the sheep were driven into a corral to be shorn.”

“Although her family thinks she is not big enough to participate in the annual sheep run, Ida proves she is big enough to outwit the smugglers trying to steal ...

“She isn’t even big enough yet to help with the spring sheep run. But when Ida outsmarts a gang of sheep smugglers, everyone knows she’s ready for new responsibilities. ”

“It is about 3 sheep that were in the middle of a field. She could hear whistling from men on both ends of the field.”

“Ida took the sheep with her back to her home so that the men could not catch the sheep.”

“Her mother sends her over to a neighbor’s house with bread, where there has been no time for baking because a baby was born. But on the way, while she visits a ewe with twin lambs, Ida hears the low whistles smugglers use to signal one another.”

“And there was the danger of smugglers who came from the mainland to steal sheep_Ida might encounter them. Mother was sure, however, that Ida would be safe as long as she stayed on the trail.”

″ But on the way, while she visits a ewe with twin lambs, Ida hears the low whistles smugglers use to signal one another.”

“By starting a miniature sheep run, she moves them all to safety, showing her family not only that she is ready for the big sheep run next year...”