All of these animals reappear in the book’s five-line verses, which tell a story of loneliness and new friends. Every poem focuses on a different emotion, which Hoogstad depicts with a vibrant palette and chunks of colour. When the animals kick their ball into Bull’s flower garden, he comes charging after them, all red and angry. There’s a moment of tension as the reader fears that the culprits aren’t going to escape, but this cheerful animal story never becomes really scary – even the angry bull ends up partying among a happy crowd of animals, with a nice grin on his big bovine face. Hoogstad has chosen her colours with care: sad mice seek to comfort one another in a muted green forest and Elephant and Donkey shyly celebrate their new love under a bright pink sun, the illustrations enhancing the poems beautifully.