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  • Published: 3 May 2004
  • ISBN: 9780670041497
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $26.00

Where is The Green Sheep?




THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR – EARLY CHILDHOOD

Mem Fox and Judy Horacek take you on a wildly wonderful adventure in their rollicking search for the green sheep in this Australian classic.

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?
Mem has never owned a sheep, let alone a green one, but she does admit to having woolly thoughts from time to time. Judy loves drawing things, especially sheep. This is her first flock.

‘Laughs and interactive play will ensue among readers and listeners.’ Booklist

‘Perfectly attuned to a toddler's sense of playful discovery.’ Horn Book Guide

‘Just right for toddlers experiencing the basics of life and budding readers learning to complete their sentences by looking at words and pictures together.’ Kirkus Reviews

‘Oh what a beaut it is! … Cunningly worked rhyming words make it a delight to read aloud, sharing with a very young reader who will want to return again and again to the story … Brilliant.’ Books for Keeps

  • Published: 3 May 2004
  • ISBN: 9780670041497
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 32
  • RRP: $26.00

About the authors

Mem Fox

Mem Fox has written more than 40 books for children, including the bestselling and much-loved picture books Possum Magic and Where is the Green Sheep? Other books by Mem include Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, Hunwick’s Egg, Hello Baby!, A Giraffe in the Bath, Koala Lou, Baby Bedtime and Roly Poly. In 2019, The Tiny Star was released to great critical acclaim from the Australian Book Industry, and March 2021 saw the release of another new picture book, Early One Morning.
Mem has been presented with an array of book awards, and was awarded an AM for services to the cultural life of Australia in 1993.
Mem lives in Adelaide and is a retired Associate Professor of Literacy Studies from Flinders University, South Australia.

Judy Horacek

Judy Horacek is an Australian cartoonist, writer and illustrator. She has been drawing cartoons for many years and has worked for a multitude of community groups, unions, small magazines and good causes.

Her work is often concerned with feminism, the environment and social justice issues. Six collections of her cartoons have been published: Life on the Edge Unrequited Love, Woman with Altitude, Lost in Space and If the fruit fits. Major retrospective exhibitions of her work have been held at the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. She has also had numerous solo and group exhibitions of her cartoons and her prints.

She is the illustrator of the highly acclaimed and bestselling Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox.

Awards & recognition

KANGA Children's Choice Awards

Winner  •  2006  •  Picture Story Books

KOALA Children's Choice Awards

Winner  •  2006  •  Picture Story Books

YABBA Children's Choice Awards

Winner  •  2006  •  Picture Story Books

REAL Children's Choice Awards

Shortlisted  •  2007  •  Picture Story Books

BILBY Children's Choice Awards

Shortlisted  •  2008  •  Early Readers

REAL Children's Choice Awards

Shortlisted  •  2008  •  Picture Story Books

BILBY Children's Choice Awards

Shortlisted  •  2009  •  Early Readers

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