Customer Reviews

Sheep in Wolves' Clothing (Sunburst Books)

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My daughter considers this one of Kitamura's best, though a notch below the hilarious, suprise-ending "Me and My Cat" and "Lily Takes a Walk." Still, the book's off-kilter humor, his wonderful drawings, and his timeless story of Sheep Looking For Their Wool in the Big, Bad City is great entertainment.

I brought this book home from the library and my 3 year old son loves it. We have read this book at least 30 times. The illustrations are great and so detailed we are discovering new things all the time. Our favorite pages are the beach scene, Elliot's office and the yarn fight. Now it is time to buy it.

"Sheep in Wolves' Clothing" is a great book and entertaining on many levels. The story and illustrations are good for non-readers and beginning readers will be able to follow the story with ease. As a parent, I noticed new items every time I read it.

Deadpan, hilarious. Three sheep - none too bright - go for a dip at the beach, but not before removing their coats on the suggestion of a pack of golfing wolves who run a knitwear black market in the city. There's a detective (Elliott Baa, someone's elk-horned relation) and rugby playing cats in the middle, although it's finally not the noirish plot elements which will keep you going, but Kitamura's (and the sheeps') innate suggestibility. Here is a tale told for children by a very big child who also happens to be an enormously gifted comic artist.