The Sheep That Stole the Farmer's Hat - Tim Saunders
All the farmer's clothes have gone off the line! Who has taken them?
The farm animals are having a field day with all the farmer's clothes, using them in all sorts of inventive ways.
With perfect bouncy rhyme, this is a silly delight to read out loud.
The illustrations capture the animals' strange and wonderful inner lives.
Perfect for:
– anyone who likes nonsense rhymes like Dr Seuss
– children who love funny, silly stories
– reading aloud with little ones
– spotting the fun ideas in the illustrations that add to the story
– fans of animal stories
– fans of anything set on a farm
– anyone who loved The Tractor has a Wobbly Wheel
Author bio:
Tim Saunders farms sheep and beef near Palmerston North. He has written two children's picture books, The Tractor has a Wobbly Wheel and The Sheep that Stole the Farmer's Hat, and two adult non-fiction titles, This Farming Life and Under a Big Sky. He was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2021 for his story Carved; the only New Zealander to be shortlisted for this prestigious prize that year. He has had poetry and short stories published in Headland, Best Small Fictions, takahe, Landfall, Poetry NZ Yearbook, Broadsheet, RNZ and Flash Frontier. He won the 2018 MindFood Magazine Short Story Competition. He was joint winner of the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize in 2023. He performs poetry around the Manawatu and beyond.
Age 3-6
32 pages
Soft cover
