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Age-range: 3+; Marvin is not a happy sheep. All the other sheep are bigger than him, and can run faster and jump higher than he can. So Marvin decides to do something about it. He Eats. And eats, and eats, until he is so big that there is nothing left for him to eat in the world - at which point Marvin eats the world itself! But that is a step too far, and what went in is going to have to come out...A rumbustious story that shows how it is possible to take some self-improvement just a little bit too far.

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Like puffy clouds with smiling faces and sticklike legs, sheep gambol merrily upon sunlit green hills-all but Marvin, that is, who resents being slightly smaller and less athletic than average. So, he starts to eat: grass, trees, and hills at first, then on to all of Ireland, and finally the entire world. Ultimately, huge but lonely, he vomits it all back up ( BAAAAA! ) and rejoins his flock, now content with his lot. Theobald compensates, at least in part, for the unoriginal plot (see Henrik Drescher's Boy Who Ate Around, 1994) and flimsy psychology with simply drawn, tongue-in-cheek scenes replete with irresistibly cuddlesome woolly baa-baas in lively colors on full-bleed, double-paged spreads. The art carries the humor-and the day. So call this a promising debut, with an underdeveloped storyline. (Picture book. 5-7) (Kirkus Reviews)

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This is Joseph Theobald's first book. He trained at Falmouth Art College, and is currently living and helping build a boat in Spain.

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