Kirkus Reviews called it 'ideally easy and well-designed'. A welcome addition to the year's flock of easy-readers'.

School Library Journal wrote: 'Basic beginning vocabulary is repeated in this easy-to-read rhyme about different kinds of sheep. Laughs and interactive play will ensue among readers and listeners, alone or in groups'. Published by Penguin Books, It is about various coloured sheep doing various things, with the protagonist, the green sheep, not being seen until the final pages.īooklist wrote: 'Little ones will bounce with anticipation as the simple yet clever text takes them to visit one sheep and then another.

(Apr.Where is the Green Sheep? is a children's picture book written by Mem Fox and illustrated by Judy Horacek. , for example) will find this book a useful vehicle for putting her suggestions into practice. Parents intrigued by Fox's ideas about early literacy (as expounded in Reading Magic Youngsters won't mind taking a circuitous route to the payoff, however: Horacek's wryly stylized non-green sheep, whose coats look like a hive of curlicues, are utterly endearing in their happy-go-lucky ways-whether they're splashing in a bubble bath or schussing down a slide. The answer finally appears on the last page, where the distinctly lime-green sheep is found snoozing in a meadow. 'But where is the green sheep?' asks the text (the question serves as the book's refrain). Turning the page, the audience will find all manner of sheep out for a day in the park-save one. 'Here is the moon sheep./ And here is the star sheep,' explains the spread that follows, which finds two sheep staking claim on heavenly bodies. 'Here is the near sheep./ And here is the far sheep,' writes Fox, as Horacek goes in for an extreme close-up on the former and takes a panoramic view of the latter.

) introduce children to a host of other whimsical woolly ones, all of which are described in pithy, vocabulary-building terms. But before its undisclosed location is revealed, Fox and first-time picture book illustrator Horacek (previously teamed with Fox for the resource book Reading Magic The hunt is on for a sheep that's green all over.

Where Is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox