Oh dear, look what I got!

"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 p...