Oh Dear, Look What I Got!Oh Dear, Look What I Got!

I went to the shop to get me a carrot. Oh dear! They gave me 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 expressivecrew of animal characters rendered as only Helen Oxenbury can, making for a timeless story guaranteed to beg many repeat readings. Oh dear!