Where is the Green Sheep?
Mem Fox and Judy Horacek take you on a wildly wonderful adventure in their rollicking search for the green sheep.
Awards
Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year 2005 – Early Childhoood
Speech Pathology Australia Award 2005 – Young Children category
About
This is where my picture book career began. Although I’d always wanted to make children’s books, and had even worked on some ideas, I had never taken it very far. But one day Mem Fox sent me an email, saying that she had been looking around my website and had fallen in love with a small etching I had done of a green sheep. She said that the sheep had to be in a children’s book. So I suggested that we could do it together and we did. It was a wildly exciting time, with ideas of different sheep shooting back and forth between the two of us by phone, fax and email, until we came up with our ideal cast. Some of the sheep that were rejected ended up on the hillside of sheep near the end of the book (along with others that weren’t considered, like the Ned Kelly sheep and the Carmen Miranda sheep).
Editions
Penguin/Viking in Australia (hardback, boardbook and large format)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in USA (hardback and boardbook)
In Korean – Youngko Publishing, Korea
In Hebrew- Modan Publishing, Israel
In Japanese – RIC Publications, Japan
Other covers
