This is a wonderful concept book with a bit of a puzzle. Where is the green sheep?? We go looking page by page and find the red sheep and the thin sheep; the "up" sheep, the "down" sheep but where is the green sheep?
picture book concepts colors prepositions Read aloud 2s, 3s, 4s toddler preschooler
Recommended by: Barb Langridge, abookandahug.com
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Here is the blue sheep, and here is the red sheep. Here is the bath sheep, and here is the bed sheep. But where is the green sheep?
There are some stories that you can recite word for word even if it's years since you last read them, such is their power and the insistence of the little ones in your life to "Read it again, Grandma!"
I owe a debt of gratitude to Mem and Judy because this is the story that Miss Now-9 learned to read on and when Grandma got tired, Miss Now 14 was able to take over the reading duties. No other book, no matter how well promoted, ever came close to the demand for this one and so with Puffin's 80th birthday celebrations in full swing, it seems timely to promote it to a whole new generation of parents and grandparents so they too can achieve this particular rite of passage.
With its. rhyme, rhythm and repetition and simple illustrations that help the youngest reader to predict the text and share the joy when it is confirmed, Fox and Horacek have hit on the right recipe for a story to encourage our youngest readers to love the sound of our language. Given Mem's background in working with and writing for littlies though, this is hardly surprising and you know any book with her name on the cover will be a winner.
In fact, so iconic is this title from one of Australia's most-loved author-illustrator partnerships that there is even a 2020 edition that really puts the icing on the cake of this special year https://youtu.be/Zx5SuUejlqY. There can be no greater tribute.
Recommended by: Barbara Braxton, Teacher Librarian, New South Wales AUSTRALIA
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Resplendent in a gold foil cover to celebrate its 20th birthday, is one of my favourite early childhood books of all time.
Few children in Australia in the last 20 years would not be familiar with these words...
Here is the blue sheep, and here is the red sheep. Here is the bath sheep, and here is the bed sheep. But where is the green sheep?
And among them is my own granddaughter who gave me one of my most memorable grandma-moments when she sat up in bed at just-turned-2 and read it to her older sister. We had yet another reader in the family!!!
And now she is 13 and reads everything she can, (as does that sister) and all because of the fun, predictable, rhyming text of an Australian classic with its gorgeous illustrations that allowed her to predict what the words said even if she didn't quite recognise them yet.
Could anyone ask any more of a book for little ones? My copy will be put aside for her to share with hers when she is older. But it will also be a must-get for a brand-new grandmother...
Recommended by: Barbara Braxton, Teacher Librarian, New South Wales AUSTRALIA May 2024
See more of her recommendations:
500 Hats https://500hats.edublogs.org/
The Bottom Shelf https://thebottomshelf.edublogs.org/
Storybook Cushions https:// bit.ly/storybook_cushions