Soaked!
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
A Hula-Hooping moose, a badger with a bumblebee umbrella, a rabbit in a cashmere sweater, and a very wet bear star in this unpredictable and laugh-out-loud picture book in which having fun gets the best of a grumpy bear.
It looks like a wet and dreary day for Bear and his trio of friends. How could he possibly have fun when he is soaked? But Badger, Rabbit, and Moose don't seem to mind. In fact, Moose can still hula hoop! And it looks like so much fun. Might Bear like to try?
Here is a story that shows that fun is not dependent on sunshine and blue skies. In fact, it might be more fun to be soaked!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"Look at all this rain" reads the first page of Cushman's impressive debut. Digitally finished pencil drawings show the gloomiest of days: stubborn-looking gray clouds hang in the sky, which is streaked with rain. A saturated badger, bunny, and hula-hooping moose each one eccentrically imagined and rendered with lovely texturing look appropriately dour, but none of them can match their comrade, a bear, who narrates, for Eeyore-ness. (And who can blame the bear, given that the rain has ruined its ice cream cone?) The path to happiness is circuitous and includes mordantly funny scenes involving the bear's tight, stuffy cave (where the moose's hula-hooping takes up way too much space) and a mysteriously missing umbrella (though readers will know instantly who swiped it). But eventually this misbegotten quartet the bear most of all discovers the joys of rainy day puddle splashing while hula-hooping. "Look at all this rain," Cushman reprises, this time adding an exuberant "Everyone is SOAKED!" Visually elegant and character-driven to the hilt, this book makes the familiar make-lemonade story feel as fresh as the outdoors after a summer shower. Ages 3 7.
