Sharing with Wolf by Melinda Szymanik illustrated by Nikki Slade Robinson

"My favourite food is grass, with the occasional daffodil. My favourite season is spring and my favourite colour is green. What about you?"

"My favourite colour is silver, like the moon. And my favourite season is also spring, because there is plenty of my favourite food around. It's in my nature."

Think about the cover and end papers with your library group or young reading companion. The sheep has a knitting basket and (on the end papers) the wolf has a book with the ominous title "50 ways with Mutton". Throughout the book keep your eye on the knitting basket - it has some fun labels.

Wolf is looking for a housemate. Lamb arrives. 

"I'm a quiet sort who loves minding my own business. It's true I do tend to follow the flock, but my wool makes very nice sweaters and bed socks."

The answer from Wolf is a little surprising. He says he cannot share with a sheep because ... well he likes to eat sheep.

BUT Sheep will not take no for an answer. Warning the ending might SHOCK you! Perhaps Sheep should have stayed with her flock.

Here are the teaching notes from Scholastic. Here is an interview with the author and illustrator. The suggested age for this 2020 picture book (I borrowed it from a library) is 4-8 but I think older children are more likely to enjoy the fun and perhaps not be too upset that maybe that little sheep has just become lunch for the wolf.