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April 2014 Book of the Month A delightfully dotty flock of sheep have fun flying, by the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize! Lambert, Eunice, Marty, Mabs and the rest are happily skipping about on their luscious green hillside when something ZOOMs overhead. Being bold, they are soon off on an amazing airborne adventure in some spectacular flying machines. They face terrible danger and potential catastrophe before returning quietly home.
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Those Magnificent Sheep in Their Flying Machine Synopsis
A wonderfully stylish rip-roaring pastiche from Roald Dahl Funny Prize winner, Peter Bently, and creator of Dirty Bertie, David Roberts.
The sheep on the hillside were munching away, Much as they always did, day after day, When suddenly something went zoom! overhead. Let's go and see what it is! they all said. And so begins a ripping, round-the-world adventure as the sheep take to skies in a magnificent yellow flying machine.
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9781849396349 |
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3rd April 2014 |
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Peter Bently |
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David Roberts |
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Andersen Press Ltd |
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Hardback |
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32 pages |
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Press Reviews
Peter Bently Press Reviews
'Stylish and funny with a fantastic read-aloud text' The Bookseller
'A total pleasure' Independent on Sunday
'Bently's award-winning chaotic humour is perfectly matched by David Roberts
eccentric and beautifully detailed illustrations' Daily Mail
'Illustrator David Roberts blends caricature and an elegant style to suit both the silliness and the 1920s setting' Sunday Times
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About Peter Bently
The award-winning author of over seventy books, Peter went to ten schools as far apart as Devon, Northumberland, Germany and Hong Kong. He studied languages at university and worked as a journalist and non-fiction editor before becoming a children's author.
His titles include bestsellers Octopus Shocktopus! (illustrated by Steven Lenton), which won the FCBG Children’s Book Award 2022 and the Teach Early Years Picture Book Prize 2020; Dogs in Disguise (illustrated by John Bond), winner of the Shropshire Picture Book Prize 2022; Cats Ahoy! (illustrated by Jim Field), which won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize; and King Jack and the Dragon (illustrated by Helen Oxenbury), an American Library Association Notable Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal.
His bestselling The Great Dog Bottom Swap, illustrated by Mei Matsuoka, has been described as a “cult classic” and was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize.
When he’s not writing, Peter enjoys visiting schools, libraries and book festivals.
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