Baa baa black sheep: the fleeced fleece by John Barwick and Dave Atze
Nursery Crimes Case One. Big Sky Publishing, 2019. ISBN:
9781925675993.
Themes: Humour, Mystery. What a funny re-imaging, with a clever
twist, of the popular nursery rhyme, Baa baa black sheep.
The central character in the story as an amateur detective is Little
Miss Muffett, who is capable, smart, calm and practical. In Case
One, she teams up with Baa Baa Black Sheep, to solve a crime, hinted
at in the rhyme, but previously concealed.
Other familiar nursery rhyme characters also make appearances, as
well as some popular fairy story characters. The book doggedly takes
on the cover-up and complex web of crime and corruption to unlock
the secret to this much loved, but confusingly incomplete rhyme.
The book's illustrations, in black and white, feature cartoonish
characters and add to the humour of the book.
Donna Isgar