Oh Dear, Look What I Got!

The incomparable creative team behind <We&#8217;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&#8212;a hat, a coat, a cake, a chair&#8212;he finds himself thwarted at every turn, amassing instead a growing menagerie of animals who happily follow him on his errands. It&#8217;s not until he finally asks for a cup that he&#8217;s proffered a wriggly creature that solves his dilemma . . . or does it? Adding delicious momentum to Michael Rosen&#8217;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!

Auteur
Michael Rosen is a poet and the author of many books for children, including the international bestseller We&#8217;re Going on a Bear Hunt, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, which won the Nestlé Smarties Children&#8217;s Book Prize; A Great Big Cuddle, illustrated by Chris Riddell; and Michael Rosen&#8217;s Sad Book, illustrated by Quentin Blake. He received the Eleanor Farjeon Award for services to children&#8217;s literature in 1997 and served as Children&#8217;s Laureate in the UK between 2007 and 2009. Michael Rosen lives in London.

Helen Oxenbury is a two-time winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal and the 2015 Carle Artist Honoree. She is a celebrated illustrator of many well-loved books, including Charley&#8217;s First Night and When Charley Met Grampa, both by Amy Hest, Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell, We&#8217;re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen, and There&#8217;s Going to Be a Baby by her husband, John Burningham. Helen Oxenbury lives in London.