Sheep Take a Hike
- Book Review,
by Nancy E. Shaw, Margot Apple (Illustrator)
From Publishers Weekly
This adventure lacks the comic fullness of the best of Shaw and Apple's work, said PW, but the light verse "is as snappy as ever" and the sheep's facial expressions remain "delightfully emotive." Ages 2-6. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 2-Fans of Shaw's silly sheep will flock to this, their fifth woolly adventure. When Sheep Take a Hike, these intrepid explorers lose their way and wander through underbrush, fog, and a swamp. Cleverly, they keep their cool and follow the "woolly fuzz they left behind" to get back on the trail. Using her familiar short rhymes and rollicking rhythm, the author has written another surefire favorite for preschool story times and beginning readers. Apple's colored-pencil drawings add just the right balance between the seriousness, confusion, and humor the sheep experience. A rambunctious outing with riotous results.Gale W. Sherman, Pocatello Public Library, IDCopyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Ages 4-6. Although not as clever as some of the previous books about these silly sheep, this title still has plenty going for it. Here, the flock is headed for a hike, but as the forest grows thicker, the sheep bicker. It seems as if they might be lost, but the hike has been so rugged, the sheep have left bits of wool stuck in the bushes and so can find their way home. The short, rhyming text will be appreciated by kids learning to read as well as the regular picture-book crowd. The colored pencil artwork has some funny moments, especially the last picture, which shows the intrepid hikers, covered with Afghans and sipping hot chocolate, extolling the outdoors under a lean-to. Ilene Cooper
From Kirkus Reviews
In their sixth appearance, Shaw's six insouciant sheep bumble their way through an expedition featuring the usual trials and mishaps of novice hikers (steep climbs, briars, arguing about the trail, a bog, getting lost). Each sheep is given a distinctive character in Apple's disarmingly soft color-pencil illustrations; and Shaw's deft wordplay should tickle young ears and propel the action (``Trees and bushes soon grow thicker./Where's the trail? Sheep bicker...Thorns dig. Prickers snag./Sheep zig. Sheep zag''). The thorns, after all, are some help: After a friendly moose helps ``Sheep climb out of the slime,'' they find tufts of their own wool marking their way home. Both preschoolers and newly independent readers will chortle at the antics of these charmingly silly and sensible sheep. (Picture book. 3-8) -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Review
"Fans of Shaw's silly sheep will flock to this . . . woolly adventure. . . . A rambunctious outing with riotous results."
Review
"Fans of Shaw's silly sheep will flock to this . . . woolly adventure. . . . A rambunctious outing with riotous results."
Book Description
That fun flock is raring for a rugged hiking adventure. Rapid rhythm, rhyme, and colorful illustrations make this a perfect introduction to poetry.
Card catalog description
Having gotten lost on a chaotic hike in the great outdoors, the sheep find their way back by following the trail of wool they have left.
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