Pelle's New Suit (Hardcover)

~ Elsa Maartman Beskow (Author)

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Review

'Charming. This little book makes you feel all warm inside.' -- Totz2teens.co.uk --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Description

Pelle has a lamb whose coat grows longer and longer, while Pelle's Sunday suit grows shorter! Pelle shears the lamb, and the wool is carded, spun, dyed and woven. Finally, the tailor makes a new suit for Pelle.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Hardcover: 30 pages
• Publisher: Floris Books (June 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0863150926
• ISBN-13: 978-0863150920
• Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #993,449 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful story, good values!, June 16, 2005

By	Wendy C. (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pelle's New Suit (Library Binding)

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!!!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully illustrated tale of a resourceful Swedish boy, December 17, 1998

By A Customer

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.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Story, July 4, 1999

By A Customer

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