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Pete the Sheep
Sean is a shearer, and instead of a sheepdog to help him, he's got a sheep sheep – Pete. After being rejected by the other shearers and their dogs, Sean and Pete set up a sheep salon in town. Sheep from everywhere arrive to have their wool shorn in the latest style, and even the shearers' dogs end up arriving for a cut in order to look gorgeous.
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Some notes on the book:
Pete was a black sheep called Dunmore, who herded all our other sheep into the shearing shed in return for a milk arrowroot biscuit and a scratch behind his horns. (He'd go all dribbly and weak at the knees when you scratched him).
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Back in the drought in the late 70's, when there was no grass for sheep to eat and no money to buy hay for them, a friend and I came up with a cunning plan. We'd give a sheep to every preschool in Australia! And then we'd make a living going around each preschool giving the sheep really cool hair cuts...
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Luckily it rained before we put our plan into action. But many year later, this is where the story of 'the sheep with a plan' came from.
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