Text and illustrations copy right © 2011 by Diane Kredensor Photographs copy right © 2011 by Sandra Kress All rights reserved Published in the United States by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York Random House and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc Visit us on the Web! www.randomhouse.com/kids Educators and librarians, for a variety of teaching tools, visit us at www.randomhouse.com/teachers Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kredensor, Diane Ollie & Moon / by Diane Kredensor ; photographs by Sandra Kress — 1st ed p cm Summary : Ollie provides a series of clues to his best friend, Moon, as he takes her all through Paris, France, but she is unable to guess what surprise he has in store ISBN 978-0-375-86698-2 (trade) — ISBN 978-0-375-96698-9 (lib bdg.) — ISBN 978-0-375-98084-8 (ebk) [1 Surprise—Fiction Best friends—Fiction Friendship—Fiction Paris (France)—Fiction France—Fiction.] I Kress, Sandra, ill II Title III Title: Ollie and Moon PZ7.K877Oll 2011 [E]—dc22 2010003336 Random House Children’s Books supports the First Amendment and celebrates the right to read v3.1 Title Page Copyright Dedication First Page About the Author and Illustrator H.K., this one’s for you And a special thanks to Emma and Dadoo —D.K Ollie and Moon are best friends Moon loves surprises, and Ollie loves to surprise Moon One time he surprised her with a spaghetti cake—for no reason Another time he surprised her with a performance of Irish folk dance Ollie even surprised Moon when he wasn’t trying to surprise her “Yup, but that’s not all,” Ollie said as they went on their merry way Ollie knew just the thing to cheer up Moon Snapshots! “Hey,” said Moon “Is my surprise bright with lights?” “As a matter of fact, it’s very bright,” said Ollie “Aha!” Moon cried “So my surprise is … ROUND and MUSICAL, it has LOTS OF COLORS, it has FUR, HOOVES, and FEATHERS, and it’s BRIGHT with LIGHTS!” Ollie slipped and dropped his Brie The Brie rolled round and round, down the stairs “Hey,” huffed Moon while they were chasing the runaway cheese, “does my surprise spin round and round and round again?” “As … a matter of fact …,” Ollie puffed, “it … does!” “Aha!” Moon cried “So my surprise is … ROUND and MUSICAL, it has LOTS OF COLORS, it has FUR, HOOVES, and FEATHERS, it’s BRIGHT with LIGHTS, and it SPINS round and round and round again!” “Ollie, I can read you like a book,” said Moon “I know what my surprise is—it’s an elephant on a unicycle juggling animals while playing the French horn!” “Nope,” replied Ollie “Good guess, though.” “Whew!” said Moon “I don’t really have space for an elephant in my apartment.” “Almost there …,” said Ollie Just then, they turned the corner, and there before Moon’s eyes was the best surprise ever … A CAROUSEL! “Ta-da!” crowed Ollie “Happy surprise, Moon!” Moon loved her carousel ride—even more than she loved guessing And Ollie was so very happy that Moon hadn’t guessed what it was—otherwise it wouldn’t have been a surprise THE END DIANE KREDENSOR Author-illustrator ’s formative years were spent dressing her dog in old baby clothes and reading MAD magazine, and her grown-up years have been spent pursuing a successful career in children’s animation in Los Angeles and New York She still hasn’t grown up all the way, something of which she’s proud Diane is an Emmy Award–winning artist who has worked on such hit shows as Pinky and the Brain, Oswald, and WordWorld, to name a few This is her first children’s book Diane happily makes her home in Brooklyn, New York, with her three loves—two of whom bear a passing resemblance to Ollie and Moon Visit Diane at www.dianekredensor.com SANDRA KRESS grew up in a suburb of Detroit and fell in love with photography after receiving a camera for her fifteenth birthday She is an alumna of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the International Center of Photography School in New York City Sandra lives in Paris Visit her at www.sandrakress.com ... is unable to guess what surprise he has in store ISBN 97 8-0 -3 7 5-8 669 8-2 (trade) — ISBN 97 8-0 -3 7 5-9 669 8-9 (lib bdg.) — ISBN 97 8-0 -3 7 5-9 808 4-8 (ebk) [1 Surprise—Fiction Best friends—Fiction Friendship—Fiction... Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kredensor, Diane Ollie & Moon / by Diane Kredensor ; photographs by Sandra Kress — 1st ed p cm Summary : Ollie provides a series of clues to his best friend, Moon, ... sidewalk, Moon carefully picked out a hat to wear—the silly one Ollie, guess which hat I’m wearing!” Moon said through the intercom Ollie peeked in Moon s window “The silly one,” he said Ollie