Sheep Count Flowers
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- $20.99
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- $20.99
Publisher Description
If people count sheep to fall asleep, then…
what do sheep count?
Flowers, says this beautifully fanciful dream of a book. Sunflowers, roses, geraniums, jasmine. And there's lots of OTHER things you probably don't know about sheep…Sheep have neither pajamas nor pillows nor slippers. They tell bedtime stories about rhinoceroses and airplanes. They ONLY fly when they're sleeping, like butterflies circling the sun. In fact, there are sheep that sparkle in the dark like stars and fireflies.
Or are there?
Look closer at the light-as-a-laugh paintings by Amanda Mijangos, and you just might start wondering if all those adventurers are children in sheep's clothing!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Argentinian writer Chirif brings a poet's perception to this consideration of sheep—specifically, their bedtimes. They can't count themselves, it seems, so "sheep count flowers to fall asleep:/ one sunflower,/ two roses,/ three geraniums,/ four jasmines." Mijangos (The Sea-Ringed World) works in ghostly, stencil-like images, by turns sprightly and haunting, overlaid with stroked swaths of paint and dotted with small, closely worked ink motifs—ants, stars, fish. Sheep and children share the spreads. "When sheep have nightmares, they get away from the wolf at the very last moment," Chirif writes. Mijangos draws two dark-haired, light-skinned children menaced by a wolf with a long snout. In the next spreads, they escape by running across the wolf's great body, and one rides it into the sky like a horse. The fragmentary thoughts are like dreams themselves, and their sparkling boldness will draw those who long to wander the wilds of consciousness. Ages 4–7.
