About this item
Here is the blue sheep. Esta es la oveja azul. But where is the green sheep? Pero donde esta la oveja verde? The search for the green sheep is on in this bilingual board book edition of the Australian author Mem Fox and the cartoonist Judy Horacek's delightful read-aloud Where Is the Green Sheep? Wee ones will learn concepts such as opposites and colors, but mostly they will cheer when the green sheep is finally discovered at the end. Each line is translated into Spanish directly below for easy comprehension. Awards: ALA Notable Book (2005) , Horn Book Fanfare Best Books of 2004, Child Magazine Best Book of the Year, 2004
About the Author
Mem Fox was born in Australia, grew up in Africa, studied drama in England, and returned to Adelaide, Australia in 1970, where she has lived with her husband, Malcolm, and daughter Chloe, happily ever after. Mem Fox is Australia's most highly regarded picture-book author. Her first book, , is the best selling children's book ever in Australia, with sales of over three million. And in the USA and have each sold over a million copies. is on Oprah's list of the twenty best children's books of all time. Mem has written thirty picture books for children and five non-fiction books for adults, including the best-selling , aimed at parents of very young children. Mem Fox was an Associate Professor in Literacy Studies at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, where she taught teachers for twenty four years until her early retirement in 1996. She has received many civic awards, honours and accolades in Australia, including two honorary doctorates. She has visited the United States over one hundred times, mostly in her role as a literacy expert although she is also a well-known author in America. She is an influential international consultant in literacy, but she pretends to sit around writing full time. Winner of the Dromkeen Medal (1990) .
