Tom Nancy
The Sheep Who Swapped Brains with a Boy
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- Sortie prévue le 22 sept. 2026
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- 9,99 €
Description de l’éditeur
TWO STARRED REVIEWS! • From two of the most acclaimed and beloved picture book makers today, Mac Barnett and X. Fang, comes a hilarious trickster tale like no other. A sneaky sheep has a proposal for an innocent boy that will change both of their lives forever: a brain swap!
Farmer's son Felix knows that Tom Nancy is a clever little sheep. Still, Felix is surprised to learn that not only can this sheep talk, he also has a marvelous machine stowed away in the barn that will allow them to switch brains for the day. Felix agrees to Tom Nancy’s idea of a swap, and it works! Felix finds that life in the pasture as a sheep is interesting. But Tom Nancy discovers that being a boy who wrestles and eats sandwiches is simply stupendous! So when Felix tells him he’s ready to switch back, Tom Nancy has another idea . . .
A deliciously subversive story that delivers some just deserts, Tom Nancy will have readers of all ages laughing out loud and on the edge of their seats.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
There's no woolgathering in this wickedly funny farm fable from Barnett (The Future Book) and Fang (Broken). Though sheep Tom Nancy poses as a barnyard charmer, he's really a mad scientist whose side-eye suggests that some first-class fleecing is afoot. Sure enough, the sheep not only talks, he also lures young Felix, the human farmer's son, portrayed with brown hair and light skin, to a contraption that swaps their brains, promising to switch back come evening. What happens next moves with the brisk and gleefully fiendish assurance of a classic Twilight Zone episode. Tom Nancy takes to human life with abandon ("Sandwiches! This is simply stupendous!") and welches on the deal ("I'm going to go eat your dessert and kiss your mother!"), until missed schoolwork, incomplete chores, and the prospect of adult drudgery wear him down. When he begs to switch back, he finds that now-four-legged Felix has out-fleeced the fleecer. Digitally finished graphite artwork plays the whole farce dead straight, with earthy tones and round button-eyed stares that lend gravity to every comic turn. It's a comeuppance tale with bite to spare, and an ending ewe won't see coming. Ages 4–8. Author's agent: Steven Malk, Writers House. Illustrator's agent: Erica Rand Silverman, Stimola Literary Studio.
