This was to become one of her favourite books.
At the age of 12, at the request of her father, Yates read through the whole Bible. Yates credited her mother for instilling in her a love for books by reading aloud to the family. Margaret Trudell's biography of Yates relates her reminiscences: "I know how much I look back on my teachers now, with a heart almost aching with gratitude for all they gave me, and not a little remorse for all the trouble I gave them.the teachers I think of with most gratitude are the teachers who made books real to me."īooks were an important part of her life. Yates looked back on her school days with fondness. Yates then spent a year at Oaksmere, a private school near New York City, founded by mathematician Winifred Edgerton Merrill.
She attended Franklin School, graduating in 1924. When we were very small each one of us had some plot of ground that was ours to plant and crop."Her love of animals and the land stems from these childhood experiences.
Her father owned a farm, and Yates recalled that "there were horses, cows, chickens and pigs, dogs always. Mountain Born is also the subject to an in-depth novel study, Reading 4, BJ BookLinks: Mountain Born from BJU Press and has a sequel, A Place for Peter.Īn Accelerated Reader ® quiz is available at AR quizzes provide diagnostic information for the conventional classroom teacher.įree Study Guide and Activities (PDF, 19mb)Īvailable in ePub format from Īvailable in ePub format from christianbook.Elizabeth Yates was born in Buffalo, New York, the daughter of Henry and Mary Duffy Yates. As Biddy grows into her place as leader of the flock, Peter grows too, learning the skills and joys of the shepherd’s life. His best friend is Benji, a wise old shepherd, and Benj teaches Peter to care for the sprightly lamb that becomes his special pet, his cosset. Wolves, weather, a black lamb, a trusty dog-all are part of Peter’s life on a mountain farm. In Mountain Born by Elizabeth Yates, she used her experiences from her early years of living on her father’s large farm and the hours spent with a News Hampshire shepherd in writing this fiction story.
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