About This Book:
The incomparable creative team behind We’re Going on a Bear Hunt reunite for a read-aloud comedy of misunderstandings that has all the hallmarks of a classic.
I went to the shop to get me a carrot.
Oh dear! They gave me . . .
. . . a parrot.
Oh dear! Look what I got.
Do I want that? No, I do NOT!
As a hapless boy goes from shop to shop, requesting a series of perfectly reasonable items—a hat, a coat, a cake, a chair—he finds himself thwarted at every turn, amassing instead a growing menagerie of animals who happily follow him on his errands. It’s not until he finally asks for a cup that he’s proffered a wriggly creature that solves his dilemma . . . or does it? Adding delicious momentum to Michael Rosen’s rhymes (and mastery of the page turn) are an expressive crew of animal characters rendered as only Helen Oxenbury can, making for a timeless story guaranteed to beg many repeat readings. Oh dear!
*Review Contributed By Karen Yingling, Staff Reviewer*
Perfect for Storytime Recitation
Oxenbury’s artwork has a classic feel to it, with watercolor and pencil illustrations in warm, comforting hues. The animals are very realistic, and the shops depicted with spare details against the white background.
Fans of Rosen’s titles like Book of Very Silly Poems or Book of Nonsense will find this right up their alley (with a side trip into a corner shop), and readers who love Oxenbury’s illustrations in her Tom and Pippo series of Baby Beginning Board books will be glad that she has once again collaborated with Rosen.
