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The humans take a back seat, although the inept baddies here (all of them) provide for some sort of Ealing-styled comedic pratfalls and so on. They are merely colour, however, for the various sheep, and all have their characters perfectly pointed out – the maternal one, the clever and adventurous one, the brute one, the primping flighty one, and the, er, Rasta one. They collectively are so successful on the page there is no way of typing the words Warrior Sheep without capitals, for they deserve them and more. There are definitely worthwhile smirks and still surprises in these pages for the adult, and for the target audience of 8-12s they are just going to race by. It's all silliness, but very clever silliness, and comes highly recommended.

You might like to compare and contrast the cartoonish animals here with those in [[Atticus Claw Lends a Paw by Jennifer Gray]].