Mountain born Author:Elizabeth Yates Mountain Born, the story of the boy Peter and his little black cosset who grew to be the leader of the flock of sheep, is a true pastoral, moving with the seasons and the lives of the creatures on a mountain farm. The story is set in no particular place, for its mountains and meadows, villages and people might be anywhere. The little boy in Ne... more »w England or England, Iceland or Brazil, who leads his father's sheep up to a mountain pasture and thinks long thoughts as he gazes across their fleecy backs into space, might be the Peter of MOUNTAIN BORN.« less