Lovely reviews of The Warrior Sheep Go West  are still coming in from our readers in the United States of America. Thank you all.

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 Cool Bananas. We've just had confirmation that Sourcebooks USA have bought the rights toThe Warrior Sheep Down Under. No publiction date yet. Keep an eye on this page for updates.

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 More excellent news from Egmont UK. The Warrior Sheep books are to be translated into Spanish and Catalan and sold in mainland Spain. Bravo!

Oxo's wondering if he can go on a book tour. He's heard of tapas and fancies trying some. Yum yum.

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Super news from our publishers Egmont. They have sold all three books in the Warrior Sheep series to Indonesia!   They won't be published there until next year but we can't wait to see them!

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  LEEDS BOOK AWARDS

We had a  brilliant time at the Leeds Book Awards Ceremony. The children from Hawksworth Wood Primary School who reviewed The Quest Of The Warrior Sheep did us proud. Librarian, Karen, wrote 'Poem of the Warrior Sheep' and the pupils performed it with great panache. Here's how they began:

  "Let us introduce ourselves:

the Warrior Sheep we is -

Links, Oxo, Jaycey, Wills and Sal,

We're here to do"the biz!"

Great stuff ! 

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 Island Games

We failed.  We just couldn't pick only 6 from the 365 entries for the Island Games Story Writing Competition. So, as well as the six winners, we asked if we might award 2 special prizes. And then we pushed our luck and asked if we could give a special mention to another 30. And, er, have a little ceremony too.

The ceremony was held at the Quay Arts Centre in Newport I.O.W. and was a super evening. Thanks to all the parents and teachers and, of course, the children who came along.

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THE QUEST OF THE WARRIOR SHEEP 

has just been published in the USA! Yipee!

Watch this space for details.

And it's going to be published in China and Israel

next year too.

We're totally fleeced up!

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THE QUEST OF THE   WARRIOR SHEEP

has recently been published in   Germany. We're thrilled and hope to visit some of our German readers later this year.

The super translation is by
Eva Plorin. 

Published in Germany by Thienemann: www.thienemann.de

 Solihull Children's Book Award

We're sorry we didn't win at Solihull but being on a short list of three was an honour and we

had a great day. So thanks to everyone in Solihull who voted for us and talked to us after the ceremony.

(In Solihull with Ally Kennan, author of Sparks.)

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 The Warrior Sheep have  been nominated for the Gateshead Awards. Also the People's Book Prize. We'll keep you updated.

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 Waterstone's Newport Isle of Wight

 Suzanne Whitewood from the Isle of Wight Beacon popped into Waterstone's in Newport when we were signing books and wrote a super piece about The Warrior Sheep:

http://iwbeacon.com:80/news/watch-out-for-warrior-sheep.aspx

And the Isle of Wight County Press published a great piece about our Warrior Sheep too. CRIME BUSTERS they called them. 

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Students at Newport Middle School, North Carolina, USA presented us with these great T-shirts when we visited last year.