Pamela Allen (pamelart.com) is a phenomenon in the world of children’s books.Many of her picture books have won prestigious awards and commendations both in Australia and overseas. She is the first illustrator to have won the Children’s Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year Award two years running, for Who Sank the Boat? (1983) and Bertie and the Bear (1984).
Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen. (Puffin, 1996. ISBN 069811373X. Order Info.) Picture Book. 32 pages. Grades PreK-2. Review. Five friends: a donkey, a cow, a sheep, a pig, and a mouse, all decide to go for a boat ride. They enter the boat from biggest to smallest with each new entrant tipping the boat and causing it to sit lower and lower in.
Pamela Allen. Pamela Allen is a phenomenon in the world of children's literature. For more than thirty-five years her picture books have enchanted generations of children around the world, and have garnered a glittering array of awards and commendations including six Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards, two New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, an.
Review. Do you know who sank the boat? A charming book about a cow, a donkey, a pig, a sheep and a tiny little mouse who all get into a rowboat. But, as the title suggests, something goes wrong and the boat sinks. Children love the suspense of watching the boat get fuller and fuller while making predictions about which animal will sink the boat.
