Author - Sylvia van Ommen
Illustrator - same
Publisher - Front Street & Lemniscaat, 2003.
Page #'s - 23
Rating - 3/5
The Surprise is a wordless picture book about a sheep. The sheep weighs and measures itself and takes a moped ride to purchase some dye. The sheep then dyes itself and shaves off the wool. It then knits it into a sweater for its giraffe friend!
This is a very European book with the moped and a smoking poodle. The sheep is very cute and the idea of it shaving itself to make a sweater for a friend is sweet. I do not particularly like the idea of a book without words, but the story is told well through the pictures.
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