Don't Eat That
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- $10.99
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Publisher Description
A perfect summer read-aloud from the author-illustrator who brought you, NOPE!
Bear is hungry. Gertie wants to help. But finding the perfect snack is harder than it looks. Will Gertie and Bear silence Bear's tummy grumbles before hunger gets the best of them?
Expressive characters and funny dialogue lead the way in this pitch-perfect story about patience and teamwork, by nationally-syndicated cartoonist Drew Sheneman.
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The latest from Sheneman (Nope!) looks and reads like an extended classic Sunday comic. His story has two protagonists: an unflappable girl determined to get a nature merit badge and the hulking brown bear she encounters in the woods. But this is no ordinary bear; even though he's famished, he's incapable of feeding himself. The book's endpapers and title page show that he's a former denizen of the city zoo. After preventing Bear from eating a rock (hence the title) and calmly explaining that Bear can't eat her ("That would be terribly rude," she says, without flinching), the girl takes him on as a project. From there, the ink-and-watercolor drawings portray a kind of My Fair Lady set in the wild. Bear fumbles in his foraging (even a rabbit gets the better of him) and, in a moment of frustration, eats the girl's merit-badge logbook and spits it out with a supercilious "ptui." Still, the girl perseveres, ultimately proving she's a mentor ne plus ultra. Seamlessly blending verbal and visual humor, Sheneman lands every joke including some truly cringeworthy puns. Ages 3 5.
