It’s a counting-down fiasco of multi-coloured proportions when the master and the dame brawl over every bag of wool, claiming each colour to be best suited to them.
In a hilarious rhyming frenzy, they address each colour sheep, adapted from the well-known phrase, “Baa, baa, blue sheep, have you any wool?”, in which the sheep responds, “Yes sir, yes sir, nine bags full.”
Bright and bold imaginations take flight as master and dame fancy themselves in each coloured daydream, pronouncing that all the wool (of diminishing quotas) must be theirs, and theirs alone. Eventually their squabbling stops at three black bags full when the boy who lives down the lane stops them and demands them to share.
Great in the classroom for a nursery rhyme exploration, especially with its 'sister' books. Could be used for number and colour exploration as well as creating a timeline of all the different events in the book