Gaber's winsome acrylic-and-pastel illustrations are outstanding, rich in color and texture and filled with details to enhance side-by-side sharing.

Only 14 left in stock (more on the way). Gaber's winsome acrylic-and-pastel illustrations are outstanding, rich in color and texture and filled with details to enhance side-by-side sharing. Many animals mentioned in the text ("Spiders mend"; "Crickets strum") aren't immediately obvious in the artwork, adding a gentle seek-and-find challenge, and each lamb wears a unique ribbon around its neck, allowing children to choose one and follow its progress from page to page.

Have you tried counting sheep?' " The murmurous rhythms of Root's rhyme, the soothing serenity of Gaber's art, plus smooth verbal and visual transitions between spreads make this invitation to dreamland as hard for wakeful lambs.

Have you tried counting sheep?' " The murmurous rhythms of Root's rhyme, the soothing serenity of Gaber's art, plus smooth verbal and visual transitions between spreads make this invitation to dreamland as hard for wakeful lambs of the two-legged variety to resist as Jane Dyer's Lullaby Moons and a Silver Spoon (2003), Ruth Louise Symes's Sheep Fairy (2003), or other bedtime reading that features the ever-popular woollies. In this snooze-time, count-down rhyme, ten lambs, each identified in Gaber’s cozy, twilit scenes by a differently colored neck ribbon, gambol about farmyard and fields, nodding off one by one until the last one comes back to Mama: ‘Mama, I can’t sleep.

Susan Gaber has illustrated numerous books for children, including THE VERY FIRST THANKSGIVING DAY by. .While she was working on TEN SLEEPY SHEEP, she would study the two lambs that had come to live there.

Susan Gaber has illustrated numerous books for children, including THE VERY FIRST THANKSGIVING DAY by Rhonda Gowler Greene, and WHEN WINTER COMES by Nancy Van Laan. She is very fortunate to live near a small market that has a fenced yard full of chickens, ducks, a pony, and sheep. Sheep have a reputation for being peaceful and sweet," she says, "but they can also have a stubborn and somewhat rebellious nature, especially when they’re young.

Rhythmic master Phyllis Root lulls little lambs to sleep to the tune of enchanting pastoral images by Susan Gaber. Time to sleep," call the mama sheep in the grass knee-deep. Outside in the farmyard, ten lively lambs would rather play than go to sleep. So off they scamper, off they skip.

Ten Sleepy Sheep book. Rhythmic master Phyllis Root lulls little lambs to sleep to the tune of enchanting pastoral images by Susan Gaber. Rhythmic master Phyllis Root lulls little. Sheep have a reputation for being peaceful and sweet, she says, but they can also have a stubborn and somewhat rebellious nature, especially when they’re young.

Phyllis Root, Susan Gaber. Ten little lambs want to play. count the sheep as they fall asleep! show more.

Ten Sleepy Sheep - Phyllis Root, Susan Gaber (Illustrator). Sleep, Bedtime, Sheep, Stories in Rhyme, Counting, Lambs.

Illustrated by Susan Gaber. Ages 2 to 5) Grown-ups may be surprised to discover that the text to a bedtime counting book is a bit of a tongue twister, but young listeners will probably be amused. As 10 beribboned sheep settle separately around the farm, dusk turns to night, and the very last one counts the others. A COYOTE'S IN THE HOUSE. Ages 8 to 12) The setting is the Hollywood hills and three coyotes move in with a family. Translated by Betsy Rosenberg