![]() Youngsters won't mind taking a circuitous route to the payoff, however: Horacek's wryly stylized non-green sheep, whose coats look like a hive of curlicues, are utterly endearing in their happy-go-lucky ways-whether they're splashing in a bubble bath or schussing down a slide. The answer finally appears on the last page, where the distinctly lime-green sheep is found snoozing in a meadow. "But where is the green sheep?" asks the text (the question serves as the book's refrain). Turning the page, the audience will find all manner of sheep out for a day in the park-save one. ![]() "Here is the moon sheep./ And here is the star sheep," explains the spread that follows, which finds two sheep staking claim on heavenly bodies. "Here is the near sheep./ And here is the far sheep," writes Fox, as Horacek goes in for an extreme close-up on the former and takes a panoramic view of the latter. ![]() ) introduce children to a host of other whimsical woolly ones, all of which are described in pithy, vocabulary-building terms. ![]() But before its undisclosed location is revealed, Fox and first-time picture book illustrator Horacek (previously teamed with Fox for the resource book Reading Magic The hunt is on for a sheep that's green all over. ![]()
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