Book #2- Cardboard Books

Title: Sheep in a Jeep

Author: Nancy Shaw 

Illustrator: Margot Apple 

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company 

Publication Date: 1986

ISBN Number: 0-395-86786

Rating: Two Thumbs Up!

            This rhyming story is about four sheep who are poorly driving a jeep. They get stuck in mud and get help from pigs to pull the jeep out, and then they crash the jeep into a tree. Luckily all the sheep were okay by the end of the story!

This was a fun book to read although I found myself getting tongue tied often while saying sheep and jeep multiple times throughout the book. The colors in each illustration remained the same (white, blue, green, brown and red). Also, there were usually only two or three words per page. I think the moral of the story is that poor decisions such as "forgetting to steer" have consequences, but I also think that reading this book aloud is an effective way for young children to learn the pronunciations of the "sh" and "J" sounds since they are repeated over and over again.