Where is the Green Sheep?

Mem Fox
Judy Moracek
Harcout Books, 2004
Animal Fiction
Infant to 5 years, as suggested on the book

All different types of sheep are named, starting with a blue sheep. There is a red sheep and a bath sheep, bed sheep, but where is the green sheep. It moves on to show a thin and wide sheep, swing sheep and slide sheep. An up sheep and a down sheep, the band sheep and a clown sheep, but still there is not green sheep. We find a sun sheep and the opposite,a rain sheep. There is a car and a train sheep, a wind and a wave sheep, but still there is no green sheep to be found. The scared sheep and brave, the near and the far sheep. We go to outer space to find and moon and a star sheep, but even they can not find the green sheep. Finally we take a peep around the page and find the green sheep fast asleep, hiding behind a green bush.

This book is PERFECT for very young readers, or even the ones who still are not able to read. It will help them learn the four different colors that are presented by the four different sheep. It can also start to help them to learn some adjectives; thin & wide, up & down, etc. They will also be able to start to identify different things; clown, wind & wave, car& train, the list goes on. The colors are very vivid in this book, which is perfect for such young readers, it helps to keep there attention on the pages. also the sentences are extremely brief and to the point. The illustrations are done in Rotring Isograph pens and Art Stretchers watercolors on Arches hot-press paper. It is a good concept book, teaching all different kinds of words used in language frequently.