Floss is a young border collie who belongs to an old man in a town & loves playing ball with the children in the park. The old man's son is a farmer & needs a new sheepdog to replace Nell who has grown too old to work so the old man decides to give his son Floss. Somewhere in her memory Floss knows about sheep & she soon learns how to be a sheepdog. But one day when Floss is on the hillside herding sheep she sees the children playing with a new ball & can't resist joining in. Meanwhile the sheep escape
- & the farmer is very angry. Floss is put in the doghouse while Nell rounds up the sheep. But after this Floss becomes a very good sheepdog
- although when she has time she still likes to play ball with the children. Kim Lewis has written three other books set on a Northumberland sheep farm Emma's Lamb" " First Snow" & " The Shepherd Boy" which was shortlisted for the 1991 Kate Greenaway Medal."