Sheep Blast Off!
Written by: Nancy Shaw
Illustrated by: Margot Apple
Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008
27 pages
Fantasy Book
Sheep Blast Off! is a fantasy book about sheep who find a spaceship in their field. They board the spaceship and blast off into space. There is a thump and two sheep float outside to see what happened. There’s just a scratch, but lights are flashing and computers are beeping and the sheep are scared. They finally figure out they should turn on autopilot and they make it back home safely.
Margot Apple illustrated this book using colored pencils. The text of this book is set in Garamond style font and is informal in placement. A lot of the words rhyme. Each page is illustrated on a double-page spread. The colors really depict the emotion in the story. When the sheep are scared the colors are dark and when they are happy and blasting off into space the colors are very bright.
This book would be appropriate for younger elementary age children. This book could be used to teach a lesson on space or farm animals since the sheep are flying the spaceship. The students could write their own fantasy story and share it with the class. Another option would be to make rhyming word patterns.
This book has not won any awards, but Nancy Shaw is the author of 6 other books about sheep and one book about raccoons. I would recommend this book for young children.
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