Gerbrand Bakker’s novel The Twin has made an overwhelming entrance in the literary world. The way he describes nature made a great impression. His observations of animals in his novel where compared with some other important writers. Almost casually he portraits them like he looks them straight in the eye.

In Donkey, Sheep and Redshank the animals are the protagonists. We read his original stories on the swift, the redshank, the jackdaw, the snipe, the dachshund, the sheep dog, the cow, the donkey and of course the sheep and many more. We follow them through the seasons in daily notes. Gerbrand Bakker’s words make you laugh and move you at the same time.