Surprise! Surprise!

by Gyo Fujikawa

A race over the meadow's stone wall ends with a splashy finish for Rabbit and his playmates.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

16 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1989

About the author

Gyo Fujikawa was an American illustrator and children's book author. A prolific creator of more than 50 books for children, her work is regularly in reprint and has been translated into 17 languages and published in 22 countries. Her most popular books, Babies and Baby Animals, have sold over 1.7 million copies in the U.S. Fujikawa is recognized for being the earliest mainstream illustrator of picture books to include children of many races in her work, before it was politically correct to do so.

-Wikipedia

Reviews

[Cheryl]

My inner toddler adores this and wants to read it again and again. Each game suggested is perfect for the critter nominating it, and perfectly wrong for the others, until the last one, which is mildly exciting for all. So cute! Highly recommended to families who enjoy celebrating innocent fun.

[Mary]

Pretty much always love picture books illustrated by Gyo Fujikawa, and this is no exception. These books bring back wonderful memories of when Erin was little.

[Rob]

"Rabbit was tired of doing nothing..." Great little story with a nice little twist. Though I must say, using Surprise! Surprise! as the title kind of telegraphs that ending a little bit.

I'm curious about Rabbit's back-story though. If he's so naughty... In what way? What's he done?

[Rochelle Sondae]

Poor rabbit! He's just as surprised as everyone else by the end of this story. There was quite a lot of words to read in this one and I did have to do some on the spot editing to avoid using the word "hated". Aside fromt that it was pretty cute.

[Brianna]

This was one of my favorite books to read as a child!!

[Bonnie]

Illustrations and kids' rating: 5
Actual storyline: 3

[Danette]

10/21/20 Read with Julia

[Leslie]

So glad to have discovered Gyo Fujikawa and her charming illustrations. This would be great fun to read with a toddler.

[Ruth]

This is a very cute book . I've become a fan of Ms. Fujikawa's artwork in children's books.

This book, however, ended rather abruptly. Which was.... say it with me now.... a bit of a surprise.

[Ayunisashiro]

Cute and funny! I do love the illustrations 🥰🥰🥰