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Sheep Out to Eat (Sandpiper Paperbacks) (Paperback)
by Nancy E. Shaw, Margot Apple
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Picture books, Children books, Age 4-8 |
| Market price: ¥ 82.00
MSL price:
¥ 72.00
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MSL rating:
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| MSL Pointer Review:
A fun and charming sheep book with great pictures and rhythms. |
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Author: Nancy E. Shaw, Margot Apple
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Pub. in: March, 1995
ISBN: 0395720273
Pages: 32
Measurements: 7.8 x 7.7 x 0.3 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00443
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0395720271
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- MSL Picks -
Again, our adventurous sheep find themselves completely out of their element and in a world of trouble. This is a great addition to a great series. This time our little band of sheep decide to go out for lunch and visit a local tea room. While this work can be classified as a beginner reader, I have to admit that I was laughing and smirking just as much as the kids when I read this one to them. The illustrations are of the usual high quality that Margot Apple has offered us in the past and the text is absolutely delightful and goes perfectly with those illustrations. This is a fun to book to read to the entire class, or a good one to read with your child one on one. Actually, I found absolutely nothing to not like about this work.
(From quoting D. Blankenship, USA)
Target readers:
Kids aged 4-8.
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Margot Apple was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a musician father and an illustrator mother. She now lives in Shelburn Falls, Massachusetts, with her husband and their pets, a dog and a cat. Ms. Apple earned her degree in art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She is now a full-time freelance illustrator, collaborating with other authors, illustrating her own picture books, and producing illustrations for Cricket and Ladybug magazines. She has illustrated more than fifty books for children and is best known for her collaboration with Nancy Shaw. Ms. Apple enjoys sewing, knitting, and working in her vegetable garden when not illustrating. She also enjoys going to flea markets and tag sales where she collects junk -- "otherwise known as antiques and collectibles."
Nancy Shaw was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband and two children. She is a freelance writer and a homemaker. She received her B. A. with high distinction and highest honors in English from the University of Michigan, where she was named to Phi Beta Kappa and won the prestigious Hopwood Award. She received her M.A.T. from Harvard University. Ms. Shaw came up with the idea for the Sheep books during a very long car trip with her husband and two children.
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From Publisher
The sheep are back, and this time they're hungry, venturing into a tea shop for even more rollicking fun and, of course, disasters.
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Publishers Weekly (MSL quote), USA
<2008-06-22 00:00>
Shaw and Apple offer more sheep shenanigans featuring the fractious flock that wreaked hilarious havoc in Sheep in a Jeep , Sheep on a Ship and Sheep in a Shop . Shaw's tongue-twisting rhymes, which here chronicle five sheep's attempt to eat at a tearoom, are as simply clever as ever. From the start, it's clear that this crew is out of its element. After feline waiters bring them menus, the sheep "point to words that they can't read." When "Waiters bring them spinach custard," the sheep "add sugar, salt, and mustard." Things go downhill quickly - and riotously - after the diners put pepper on their cake and begin sneezing wildly, upsetting tables and sending cups and dishes crashing to the floor. Asked to leave the premises, "Sheep pout. Sheep walk out. Suddenly they look about." The faces on Apple's wonderfully expressive creatures suddenly light up, for what they see is a lush lawn, which seems a perfect lunchtime munch. On the last page, the fleecy fivesome gambol down the road, in search (readers will hope) of more mirthful mischief. |
Lauralyn Persson (School Library Journal), USA
<2008-06-22 00:00>
Shaw's sheep are back, to wreak havoc in a very dignified tearoom - until they discover that the best place for them is truly out to eat... on the lawn. The very simple sentences, the rhymed text (a natural invitation to sound out the words), and the humorous tone are perfect for beginning readers. The book will also delight preschoolers. Shaw has really keyed in on particular plot elements young children will like, especially the sheeps' absolute powerlessness over making a mess: "Table tips. Teacups smash. Tea drips. Dishes crash.'' The simplicity, the slapstick, and the cheerfulness in the face of disaster will all appeal to them. The illustrations, softly colored and expressive, show the five sheep doing their best to adjust to a world in which they don't belong. All but the smallest collections will probably want more than one copy of this attractive and amusing book. |
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