As his family gathers in preparation for his big sister’s wedding, Gaps, a Nguni calf, is presented with a pair of long trousers from his father.  The problem being that the new trousers are too long.  Gaps proceeds to go from relative to relative asking if there is someone who can shorten them for him, but everyone is too busy with other wedding preparations.  That evening everyone he asked suddenly remembers that the trousers need shortening, and each do so in turn, resulting in trousers that are much too short, but in the end that turns out to be a good thing because the day of the wedding is so hot that everyone else is uncomfortable in their wedding finery, but Gaps is “fresh as a daisy.”  The story is good, but at first I was puzzled as to the author’s decision to make the characters cattle, especially a specific type of cattle with a name that will be hard for young readers to pronounce, but then I discovered that the story was originally published in South Africa, where I presume children are familiar with this particular type of cattle.  I have to confess I was not overly impressed with the artwork.