「我去商店買紅蘿蔔,結果帶回來的是……一隻鸚鵡?!」每次到商店買東西,主角都期待能買到自己想要的食材,但事情總是出乎意料——紅蘿蔔沒有買到,卻帶回了一隻鸚鵡;再去一次商店,又出現新的動物!隨著故事一頁頁展開,各種動物接連登場,場面也變得越來越熱鬧。孩子會在節奏感十足的押韻文字中,忍不住一起朗讀、猜測下一頁會出現什麼驚喜。本書由《We're Going on a Bear Hunt》作者 Michael Rosen 與插畫家 Helen Oxenbury 再度合作,延續兩位創作者最擅長的朗讀節奏與溫暖幽默。活潑生動的插圖讓動物與角色充滿表情與動感,營造出歡樂又充滿想像力的閱讀體驗。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 Ros