A Beginner's Guide to Bearspotting
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Bearspotting is a dangerous business – you ought to take it seriously, you know. So here's what you need to know for starters – black bears are dangerous and black, brown bears are dangerous and brown. Although sometimes black bears can be a little brown, and brown bears can be a little black. Are you following? You really need to focus here. If you do, this guide will tell you all you need to know when walking in BEAR COUNTRY. Don't leave home without it. Are you ready? Good! Let's go ...
A Beginner's Guide to Bearspotting is the laugh-out-loud, essential guide for all would-be bearspotters. To be studied with due care and attention. Don't say we didn't warn you ...
This eBook comes with a gloriously entertaining audio accompaniment, read by the award-winning actor Lenny Henry.
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As a junior woodsman heads into bear country, Robinson's (There's a Lion in My Cornflakes) narrator who is highly unreliable and something of a classic British scold tags along. "I don't think you're taking this very seriously," the narrator sniffs when the boy cheekily displays his blue teddy bear. "You ought to, you know." Soon a black bear and a brown bear make appearances, looking exactly as hulking and beady-eyed as they appear in the boy's field guide, and the narrator's insights become increasingly unhelpful: "With a brown bear, the best thing to do is play dead. Although to a black bear, that's like an invitation to dinner." The day is saved at least momentarily when the boy ignores the narrator in favor of his own plan. However, the Klassenesque final page suggests that the boy's exploring days are permanently over, striking a grim closing note. Roberts's (Happy Birthday, Madame Chapeau) artwork is exquisitely inked and textured, and there's subversive comedy on every page, such as when the bears strike coquettish come-hither poses in the pages of the boy's field guide. Ages 3 6.
