Go to Sheep

by Jennifer Sattler, Benson Shum (Illustrator)

Overview

There are many ways to go to “sheep” with this delightful bedtime board book that’s perfect for reading aloud!

You can sheep in your pj’s
or just underpants.
You can sheep all alone
but sometimes you can’t.

There are lots of ways to go to “sheep,” and here to show you all of the ways is an adorable...sheep! This bedtime book is perfect for a giggle before little ones drift off to sleep, just as the sheep does in this charming board book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534403956
Publisher:	Little Simon
Publication date:	01/22/2019
Pages:	24
Sales rank:	1,046,239
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	2 - 4 Years

About the Author

Jennifer Sattler is the award-winning author and illustrator of many children’s books, including Sylvie and Uh Oh, Do Do!, and the Chick ‘N’ Pug and Pig Kahuna series. She grew up outside of Philadelphia and then went on to study painting and drawing at the University of New Hampshire, followed by the Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University in Bloomington. In 1996, she won a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her books have won The Mockingbird Award for Picture Books and The Georgia Children’s Book Award. Jennifer lives in upstate New York.

Benson Shum is a children’s book author and illustrator of picture books like Anzu the Great Kaiju and Jennifer Sattler’s Go to Sheep. Benson is also an animator at the Walt Disney Animation Studios, where he was a part of such films as Frozen, Big Hero 6, Zootopia, Moana, Frozen II, Raya and the Last Dragon, and Encanto. Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, Benson now lives in sunny southern California.

Editorial Reviews

2019-01-28

One puffy little sheep is ready and willing to help readers navigate to slumberland.

Playing on the associations of counting sheep and making a silly substitution of "sheep" for "sleep," this rhyming catalog discusses ways to "go to sheep." An all-knowing sheep narrator shows two sibling sheep as well as readers how it's done in bouncy rhyme, advising them when to rest, of places to sleep, what to wear, and all about dreams, with a final page showing the sheep trio tucked in and drifting off. Though it might be too boisterous for actual bedtime reading, it's fun to read aloud, with a perky cadence and natural moments of drama, as when the sheep cozy up during a thunderstorm in a recto captioned: "you can sheep all alone… / but sometimes you can't." Deeply shaded watercolor vignettes with impressionistic detailing make the sleepy sheep appear ultracomfy while containing enough slapstick to hold readers' interest: The narrator naps in heart-printed undies or dozes off while leaning against a startled friend—though the two siblings dumping water on the "grumpy" resting narrator edges toward mean-spirited. It's a shame that the illustrator genders the female sheep with those ubiquitous long eyelashes and that it ends so specifically with "mama" doing the bedtime routine.

This pleasant going-to-bed book isn't essential, but it might be worth snuggling up to for a read. (Board book. 2-4)

Kirkus Reviews