Oh Dear, Look What I Got!
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
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!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Arrayed shop visits yield a series of unexpected purchases in this engaging comedy of errors from the creators of We're Going on a Bear Hunt. First-person narration begins with a pale-skinned child's attempt "to get me a carrot," and their surprise upon discovering that the wrapped package contains a parrot. Additional outings to buy a hat, a coat, a cake, a chair, and more produce rhyme-based mix-ups that build to a menagerie of creatures, and a repeating lament: "Oh, dear,/ look what I got!/ Do I want that?/ No, I do NOT!" Eventually, a pup received in lieu of a cup sets the whole narrative into rewind, There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly–style ("A wriggly pup...,// that chased the bear,/ that stepped on the snake..."), and a knock at the door further promises to make things right. Rosen's humor-laden rhymes and cumulative conclusion result in a simple, polished tale that will elicit easy laughs as the refrains, and beasts, accumulate. Oxenbury's familiar light-handed pencil and watercolor artwork makes an ideal companion—spare but expressive scenes center on the flabbergasted young shopper until a lively resolution makes a party of the "wild" events. Characters are portrayed with various skin tones. Ages 3–7. Author's agent: Charles Walker, United Agents.
