The Surprise! series: The school chickens are suddenly laying

strange eggs and Tom has a huge problem.

Easy to read: simple sentences, clear language, a fastpaced plot

and lots of illustrations – have fun!

The concept of the Surprise!

series is simple and catchy: Each volume introduces a new animal.

Ages 7+

128 pages

Claudia Scharf, Barbara Fisinger

Surprise! 1. A T-Rex Hatches Out

Claudia Scharf, Barbara Fisinger

Surprise! 2. Shut Your Beak, Platypus!

Claudia Scharf, Barbara Fisinger

Surprise! 3. Octopus Rocks!

Surprise! What on earth is hatching?

VOLUME 3: Tom now has the TRex girl Rexi and the chatty platypus Pepe living with him – that's enough pets, thank you.

But then school chicken Edda starts brooding... and CRACK! the lovable octopus Rocky tumbles into Tom's life –

a multitalented creature that helps wherever it can. But how strange: Suddenly mum hen Edda is nowhere to be found!

When the school caretaker also disappears, Tom and his animals realise that something fishy is going on here ...