Let Me Sleep, Sheep!
Illustrated By: Leila Rudge
Stock No: WW205473
Let Me Sleep, Sheep!  -     By: Meg McKinlay
    Illustrated By: Leila Rudge

Let Me Sleep, Sheep!

Illustrated By: Leila Rudge
Candlewick Press / 2019 / Hardcover

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Title: Let Me Sleep, Sheep!
By: Meg McKinlay
Illustrated By: Leila Rudge
Format: Hardcover
Vendor: Candlewick Press
Publication Date: 2019
Weight: 2 pounds
ISBN: 1536205478
ISBN-13: 9781536205473
Ages: 5-8
Stock No: WW205473

Publisher's Description

Amos is counting himself to sleep. It’s a good plan, until the cranky sheep land in his bedroom — and start in with their many demands.

It’s bedtime for Amos, who smiles as he closes his eyes and counts some fluffy sheep trotting away in the grass. Until suddenly . . . THUD. And then another. “Not again!” says the first sheep, now on Amos’s floor. “I was having my wool clipped,” grumbles the second. None too happy at being interrupted, the woolly pair fire a battery of questions at Amos, most importantly: "Where’s the fence?" So Amos sets out to build one to their specifications, then is asked to test it out, of course. . . . In this laugh-out-loud read-aloud, a couple of crafty sheep put a child through his paces — and show that a tuckered-out kid at bedtime is a win-win all around.

Author Bio

Meg McKinlay is the author of Duck for a Day and No Bears, both illustrated by Leila Rudge, as well as the middle-grade novels Below and A Single Stone. She lives in Australia.

Leila Rudge is the author-illustrator of Gary and A Perfect Place for Ted and the illustrator of Duck for a Day by Meg McKinlay. She lives in Australia.

Editorial Reviews

As Amos sets to work designing and constructing a wall made from toys, the sheep make themselves at home (“Do you happen to have a hot tub?” in Rudge’s pale, chalky mixed-media art, which tempers the silly circumstances. Readers may think differently about counting sheep after reading.
—Publishers Weekly

Mixed-media cartoon art in soft colors deftly articulates the shift from the meadow of Amos’s imagination to the reality of his bedroom, while exaggerated details and page layouts work with the text to give the sheep large, entertaining personalities.
—The Horn Book

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