The Sheep that Stole the Farmer’s Hat

Book Author & Illustrator Tim Saunders & Carla Martell
Rights Available World excl. NZ and Aus

All the farmer’s clothes have gone off the line! Who has taken them?

From the brilliant team that created family favourite and bestseller The Tractor has a Wobbly Wheel.

The farm animals are having a field day with all the farmer’s clothes, using them in all sorts of inventive ways.

With perfect bouncy rhyme, this is a silly delight to read out loud.

The illustrations capture the animals’ strange and wonderful inner lives.

Perfect for:
– anyone who likes nonsense rhymes like Dr Seuss
– children who love funny, silly stories
– reading aloud with little ones
– spotting the fun ideas in the illustrations that add to the story
– fans of animal stories
– fans of anything set on a farm
– anyone who loved The Tractor has a Wobbly Wheel

About the Author

Tim Saunders farms sheep and beef near Palmerston North. He has written two children’s picture books, The Tractor has a Wobbly Wheel and The Sheep that Stole the Farmer’s Hat, and two adult non-fiction titles, This Farming Life and Under a Big Sky. He was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2021 for his story Carved; the only New Zealander to be shortlisted for this prestigious prize that year. He has had poetry and short stories published in Headland, Best Small Fictions, takahe, Landfall, Poetry NZ Yearbook, Broadsheet, RNZ and Flash Frontier.

Carla Martell majored in graphic design, illustration and animation at Wellington Polytechnic’s School of Design (now Massey), followed by post-graduate study in animation at Melbourne’s Swinburne Institute of Technology. She worked in the animation industry in Australia and the UK, and later completed a post-graduate Diploma in Multimedia Studies at Auckland University of Technology. In 2020 she illustrated her first children’s book, Tulip & Doug (by Emma Wood) and is currently working on her thirteenth book. Carla currently lives in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland with her family and two silly cats.