Pete the Sheep - Hardcover

Jackie French

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0732287944 ISBN 13: 9780732287948

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

There's no cutting corners on this durable edition featuring Pete and other favourite friends at Sean's Sheep Salon. the award-winning team behind Diary of a Wombat have joined forces again to create another highly amusing picture book. Sean is a shearer and instead of a sheepdog to help him, he's got a sheep sheep - Pete. After being rejected by the other shearers and their dogs, Sean and Pete set up a sheep salon in town. Sheep from everywhere arrive to have their wool shorn in the latest style and even the shearers' dogs end up arriving for a cut in order to look gorgeous. Jackie and Bruce have created the perfect combination of words and illustrations in this irreverent look at the world of sheep shearing. Ages 4-9

About this title

About the Author:

Bruce Whatley is one of Australia's best-loved and most respected author-illustrators. His recent books include the enormously successful and award-winning Diary of a Wombat, written by Jackie French, and its companion volume, The Secret World of Wombats, also illustrated by Bruce. The best-selling team have also collaborated on Pete the Sheep and Josephine Wants to Dance.

From School Library Journal:

Kindergarten-Grade 2–All the sheep shearers at Shaggy Gully have sheep dogs with names like Brute, Tiny, and Fang. A new shearer, Shaun, arrives with a sheep-sheep named Pete, who rounds up the animals with polite requests and compliments. Soon the sheep will only respond to Pete, and allow only Shaun to shear them. When the other shearers insist that they must go, Shaun opens a salon in town, styling the sheep's wool in innovative ways. When Brute, Tiny, and Fang desert their owners to have their fur styled, the other shearers finally join the salon and spend their time styling animals of all shapes and sizes. The creators of Diary of a Wombat (Clarion, 2003) have produced a bit of harmless, silly fluff that, while mildly amusing, is hardly likely to inspire rereading. Whatley's watercolor-and-colored-pencil illustrations are clean and crisp and work nicely with the text, but there is simply not much substance here.–Grace Oliff, Ann Blanche Smith School, Hillsdale, NJ
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About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0732287944
• ISBN 13: 9780732287948
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 30
• Illustrator: Bruce Whatley