★ A dynamic fantasy adventure of three lovely animals: a sheep, a rooster and a duck.
★ Based on the true story of the very first balloon flight in 1783.
★ Written by the famous author Daphne Deckers, who is also the ambassador for the Nationaal Fonds Kinderhulp. She has more than 20 books and 1,3 million copies sold!
★ Illustrated by the Mark Jansen, a well-known Dutch children's book illustrator. He has more than 500 books, multi-awarded and translated into 10+ languages!
★ For ages 6-12, English translation available

This is a dynamic fantasy adventure, based on the true story of the very first balloon flight in 1783, that was manned by a sheep, a rooster and a duck. Afterwards, the animals were knighted by King Louis XVI as ‘heroes of France’, and lived on Marie-Antoinette’s farm at the grounds of Versailles.

The book created around these historical facts, is about a feisty young sheep named Georgette (‘Joe’) who is banned from the herd after she gets blamed for her mother’s death. Determined to see her mother one more time in the heavens above the sheep-clouds, she teams up with two other misfits: a rooster with a fear of heights and a duck with a lame wing, and together they rise above their challenges to become the heroic crew of the very first balloon flight in 1783 – while trying to outsmart the wolfpack that threatens the herd.

DAPHNE DECKERS (1968)
is a Dutch television presenter, a columnist in Dutch newspapers, occasional actress as well as a writer of more than twenty books (1,3 million copies sold). On 21 May 2010 she won the Lifetime Achievement Award for her extensive modelling career at the Dutch Model Awards in Amsterdam. She is also an ambassador for the Nationaal Fonds Kinderhulp.

Deckers began her career as a model, and later took up acting. In 1997 she appeared in the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies and co-presented the first series of Big Brother. She now writes children's books and books about family life and related subjects.
In 1989 she started her career at RTL-Véronique, where she eventually became the host of Holland's Next Top Model, which she took over after the second season from Yfke Sturm.

In 1993 Deckers wrote columns for Veronicablad. Not long after she was asked to write a weekly column for a newspaper in Limburg and later also for Viva, De Telegraaf and Reader's Digest.

Deckers has published two books, which have earned her the name as [Example Mother]. In 2003 her book "De geboorte van een gezin" was nominated for the NS Publiekprijs. Not only does Deckers write about upbringing, but she also writes children's books. Her second children's novel was adapted into a play in 2007. In 2012 she wrote her first romance novel, Alles is zoals het zou moeten zijn. This novel was adapted to film in 2020. The film Life as It Should Be became the third highest-grossing Dutch film of 2020.

MARK JANSSEN (1974)
studied at the Academy for Visual Arts in Maastricht. He has illustrated more than 500 books for children and adults. Lemniscaat published his first picture book Nothing Happened, which was enthusiastically received internationally, followed by Dinos Don’t Exist, Island, Stop! Monsters!, Weird and Dreamer.
His works have a unique style and are favored by international readers, and rights already sold to Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea and other countries.