No Sleep for the Sheep!

by Karen Beaumont, Jackie Urbanovic (Illustrator)

Overview

One tired sheep wants nothing more than a good night's sleep. All is peaceful until—QUACK! Is that a duck at the barn door? And now a goat? A pig? A cow? A horse? Each new unexpected guest is bigger and louder than the last! How will the sheep ever get this barnyard crowd to quiet down before—COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780544668348
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	04/12/2016
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	477,118
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Karen Beaumont is known for her lively and celebratory picture books, including I Like Myself! and the New York Times bestseller I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More!, both illustrated by David Catrow, as well as No Sleep for the Sheep!, illustrated by Jackie Urbanovic, and Wild About Us!, illustrated by Janet Stevens. She lives in California. www.karenbeaumont.com.

Jackie Urbanovic is the New York Times best-selling author and illustrator of Duck at the Door, Duck Soup, and Duck and Cover, as well as the illustrator of If You're Hoppy, by April Pulley Sayre. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Editorial Reviews

"A terrific read-aloud that will have listeners quacking, mooing, and neighing with Sheep’s friends each time they wake him up…This is sure to be a storytime favorite alongside Audrey Woods’s The Napping House."—School Library Journal, starred review"Beaumont's playful, repetitive text, with its loud animal sounds, will have children chanting along to the beat."—Kirkus Reviews "Together, Urbanovics comical watercolor illustrations and Beaumonts repetitive rhyming text manage to be both lively and soothingthe perfect combination to help energetic little ones blow off steam and settle down at bedtime."—The Horn Book —

From the Publisher

PreS-Gr 1—In this entertaining bedtime story, Sheep tucks into the "big red barn on the farm" for a peaceful night's rest, but it is continually interrupted by a parade of animals making noises. "Then there came a loud QUACK/at the door, at the door,/and the sheep couldn't sleep any more./'Go to sleep!' said the sheep/to the duck at the door./'And please don't QUACK any more!'" Sheep invites Duck into his barn and they both fall fast asleep. This playful scenario repeats word for word, except for the new animal and its sound as Sheep is joined in a cozy, dozing pile by Goat, Pig, Cow, and Horse, until Rooster wakes the farm up for a new day. Beaumont's lyrical text bounces along a predictable path, making for a terrific read-aloud that will have listeners quacking, mooing, and neighing with Sheep's friends each time they wake him up. But it's Urbanovic's vibrant, humorous watercolors that move this story forward right from the copyright page as Sheep gets ready for bed to his growing frustration as fatigue makes him frantic. The animal sounds are inserted into the text in colorful, thick letters that grow larger with each loud utterance until Rooster's "COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO" screams and stretches off a spread, making it surprising that Sheep gets any sleep at all. This is sure to be a storytime favorite alongside Audrey Woods's The Napping House (Harcourt, 1984).—Kristine M. Casper, Huntington Public Library, NY

School Library Journal

Poor sheep just wants to sleep. Yawning big yawns, his bedtime ritual begins on the copyright page as he brushes his teeth, grabs his teddy and heads out to the big red barn. But just as he closes his eyes, "There came a loud QUACK / at the door, at the door, / and the sheep couldn't sleep any more." Duck is making a racket! Sheep ushers duck inside and admonishes him with a stern, "Shhh! Not a peep! Go to sleep!" and the two snuggle in for the night. But then... "There came a loud OINK / at the door, at the door, and the / sheep couldn't sleep any more." One after another, a parade of farm animals interrupts sheep's slumber. As each animal boisterously crashes through the barn door, the bedraggled sheep, with wool askew and hoof to head, becomes more and more miserable. Beaumont's playful, repetitive text, with its loud animal sounds, will have children chanting along to the beat. In more intimate sharings, readers with a careful eye can spot the shadow of the next animal, along with a certain tiny, feathered friend who just may make the loudest sound of all.(Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews

Poor sheep just wants to sleep. Yawning big yawns, his bedtime ritual begins on the copyright page as he brushes his teeth, grabs his teddy and heads out to the big red barn. But just as he closes his eyes, "There came a loud QUACK / at the door, at the door, / and the sheep couldn't sleep any more." Duck is making a racket! Sheep ushers duck inside and admonishes him with a stern, "Shhh! Not a peep! Go to sleep!" and the two snuggle in for the night. But then... "There came a loud OINK / at the door, at the door, and the / sheep couldn't sleep any more." One after another, a parade of farm animals interrupts sheep's slumber. As each animal boisterously crashes through the barn door, the bedraggled sheep, with wool askew and hoof to head, becomes more and more miserable. Beaumont's playful, repetitive text, with its loud animal sounds, will have children chanting along to the beat. In more intimate sharings, readers with a careful eye can spot the shadow of the next animal, along with a certain tiny, feathered friend who just may make the loudest sound of all.(Picture book. 3-6)

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