Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Where Is the Green Sheep? Jan 31, Suzanne rated it it was amazing. This is just the right amount of rhyme and story for my youngest family member. Not too hard for him to grasp he doesn't sit still for long, ever! I read this before bed last night, and there were a couple of funny comments from Indy that I'm disappointed I did not take note of. I'll read it again tomorrow to see if I can recreate the funny.
The sh This is just the right amount of rhyme and story for my youngest family member. The sheep are so so cute in this story as we roll along looking for that cheeky green sheep. Mum's favourite was the 'cup of tea' sheep. Indy's was the 'sliding' sheep. I wish someone would read to me..
View all 11 comments. Dec 31, Kelly rated it it was amazing. When you're an adult, a read-through of this book might seem boring and pointless. You're looking for a green sheep - you've never seen the green sheep before. He's not even on the cover. Why should you care? All these other sheep in here doing lots of things that sheep you've seen before never do.
Where is the bloody green sheep? Why is this book so popular? Just add a toddler. Get them to 'read it' to you. This - THIS - is where this book becomes an instant all time favourite.
View all 3 comments. Jan 05, Rossy rated it really liked it Shelves: children-s. Near sheep is so cute! But I wonder, why are we looking for the green sheep? Is something happening? This is a mystery book! Sep 13, April Thompson rated it liked it. Of all the sheep, I'm definitely the bed sheep.
Oct 04, Defenestraethe rated it really liked it Shelves: sheep. These are some unspeakably cute sheep. Library copy. She had croup, and her mother wouldn't look after her, so I took her home and fed her from a bottle, and made her a croup tent, and then, when she recovered, she spent her days in the back yard playing with the dog.
When I went off to college my mother gave her to a farmer who kept the sheep for wool only, not for roast mutton. Do not think of arguing that last point. All of my former pets went to live on hobby farms where the lead long, idyllic lives. View 1 comment. Jan 15, Maxwell Rae rated it really liked it.
Where is that pesky green sheep? I liked the pictures in this book, they were nice and bright though some of the rhymes were a tongue twister for mummy. Dec 08, Emily Giannone rated it it was amazing. An intense thriller that is sure to please all ages. From the very beginning, the reader becomes the detective, trying to indeed find the whereabouts of the elusive green sheep. One finds themselves caring for many of the other sheep along the way - particularly both near and far sheep, who it seems are never destined to meet.
A compelling s An intense thriller that is sure to please all ages. A compelling search for all ages Jul 01, Andy rated it really liked it Shelves: illustrated. I got this for my 1 yr old who has shown far less interest in books than his big brother did.
We were off on holiday and I felt he needed something for the flight. Turns out we've just been giving him the wrong books. He loves it, points and grunts at it, says 'book' at bed time, naps and whenever else he sees it. He likes pointing at the sheep and especially loves the 'near sheep' page.
We read Goodnight Moon every night for 8 bloody months to my oldest but I'm finding this far more enjoyable. T I got this for my 1 yr old who has shown far less interest in books than his big brother did.
The rhyming is nicely handled, the pictures are vivid and it's the perfect length. Good choice me. Apr 10, Ally McCulloch rated it it was amazing. Fun and recommended!!
Jul 21, Afaf Ammar rated it really liked it Shelves: favorites , english-literature , art , children , european-literature , spanish-literature. Here is the swing sheep and here is the slide sheep But where is the green sheep? Here is the band sheep and here is the clown sheep But where is the green sheep? Here is the sun sheep and here is the rain sheep Here is the wind sheep and here is the wave sheep But where is the green sheep?
Here is the moon sheep and here is the star sheep But where is the green sheep? Nov 23, Sarah Sammis rated it it was ok Shelves: read-in , borrowed. It was part of a bookring. In the years between I'd pretty much forgotten about her books until a number of random sources recommended Where is the Green Sheep?
On numerous recommendations I checked out a copy of Where is the Green Sheep? Sean read it to himself and I read it to Harriet. Sean found the book a quick read as he should since it's aimed at preschoolers and he's in 2nd grade.
Harriet liked the first few pages but quickly went into "play along mode" while I read on. The book reminds me most of Sandra Boynton's books but it's about twice as long. I think it was just much repetition of "where's the green sheep" before the final pay-off.
When we were done with the book I asked Sean and Harriet for their opinions. Both complained that it didn't make sense for there to be sheep of so many different colors. So while the book is popular with many parents and children and has even inspired a children's play, it didn't win over my two. Our Library bought the big book version to use for story times. It was on the new materials truck that I processed yesterday. Of all the books on the truck, this one caught my attention.
Indeed, so much so that I ended up reading it out loud to my work colleagues at the Circulation Desk! We truly got into the spirit of the book which encourages interaction. The Desk resounded with, "Where is the green sheep? The illustrations are just lovely. I ne Our Library bought the big book version to use for story times. I need to own a copy! The more Mem Fox I read, the more I appreciate her talent. This book is no exception. She really knows how to write for children.
Every time the text asked, "But where is the green sheep? I always forget how much he likes to be involved in things, but Mem Fox doesn't forget. Target audience will like it more than I did, I'm sure. May 30, Julie rated it really liked it Shelves: colors , animals , picture-book , concepts , children-s-literature , humor , slj-toppicture-books , opposites , rhyme , sheep.
I love the pen and watercolor illustrations of the sheep, who have such whimsical, joyous expressions. This is the currently available late book and toy set of the Green Sheep. Where is the Green Sheep? Children have been known to receive it up to three times on their third birthdays which is great for Judy and me, but puzzling, to say the least, for the children. Here is the bath sheep. And here is the bed sheep.
But where is the green sheep? Judy Horacek right and me, at the launch in Canberra of Green Sheep, It makes me laugh aloud every time I see it.
Those who have heard me before will know how much I detest writing picture books. You will know that I loved writing this speech because it kept me from having to writing for children! Writing picture books is not what I live and breathe, in my daily life. It nibbles merely at the edges of my life. If it took up any more of my life it would be the death of me.
Writing picture books is madness. Let me take you through the process so you can weep along with me and send me sympathy cards afterwards. And they believe him. I find my ideas from my own life and from books, which are after all part of my own life anyway.
They come to me, not I to them. Where did the idea come from? She has new cartoons on her web-site every month, and sometimes gorgeous, diminutive water colour paintings which she sells.
In June I found on her website a little water colour painting of a sheep: a heavenly, pale green, woolly sheep standing in a dark green field. I fell in love with it. Judy had always wanted to write and illustrate a picture book and I felt immediately that this divine green sheep would be a great main character, so on June 2nd I wrote to her.
Why is it green? Where does it live, and does it live all alone? Does it perhaps have hopes of being a red sheep instead? Does it set out on a quest to change its colour? Is it thwarted in its quest: at one point becoming unbecoming stripes, for example, by accident? Does it find a new colour and happiness or does it decide that after all being green is what it loves best?
She was excited. I knew it would be easy to write a picture book about a Green Sheep that would please other adults, but I also remembered with dismay how fantastically difficult it is to write a picture book that will please children. I had to write a Green Sheep story that children would like. I had decided to write a story on this occasion, rather than a rhythmic, rhyming, repetitive book, so I needed trouble for my Green Sheep.
Without trouble there is no story. I needed a calamity. I needed a really great idea. People often suggest ideas to me—in fact people are always very ready with ideas—but the ideas have to be mine. And the Green Sheep, thank God, was mine. I set out some broad ideas. I told Judy I saw it as a book for the very young, with hilarious but simple, very bright visuals that would present little kids with the different primary colours, and with stripes and squares etc.
Who knows? It might be one of my miracle Quick-as-a-Wink ones. As a rule, I write the story alone, finish it alone, and send it to a publisher alone, without any pictures, without any illustrative ideas, and without any suggestion as to who the right artist might be. I trust the publisher, as writers must, to find the perfect artist with the perfect feeling and tone for that particular story, to ensure that the book works well as a whole.
Collaborating with Judy was a new experience for me. She made writing suggestions. I made illustrating suggestions, and we worked in real time on e-mail, back and forth, with Judy sending pictures by fax whenever she had any to show.
It was invigorating. I loved it. Children in school should never do them either. We cannot know at the beginning what our end will be, or where. Once there was a green sheep who lived all alone in a huge green field. One day a goat passed by. The goat stared at the sheep and the sheep stared at the goat. The green sheep! Hip, hip, hoo baa! Everyone knows that! The goat stared at the sheep and the sheep stared back.
And they all lived happily ever after, in their lovely coloured wool. Draft No. A picture book should be under words so words was pleasing. This sounds easy. After all, short texts look easier to write than long ones. How could there be more effort, people ask, in writing such a few words? Adults in bookshops occasionally complain about paying twenty five dollars for a picture book with words, as if words had some kind of monetary value, and therefore the more the better—the fewer the cheaper.
Momentary despair, of course! Which brings us back to Dreadful Draft No. The greatest requirement for those of us who write for children is to develop the highest possible level of dissatisfaction with what we have written.
Many amateur writers would have had early-onset satisfaction with Draft No.
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