Love Finds a Way
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
An instant New York Times bestseller!
For fans of Love Is My Favorite Thing and I Need a Hug comes a sweet story about the healing power of love. Perfect for Valentine’s Day and beyond!
Sometimes your best friend is only a tail wag away!
Oscar the bird is worried that one day love will find him. After all, there's a scurry of friendly squirrels in the forest who just can't help showering him with affection. Determined to keep it — and them — away, he gets a scruffy guard dog and names him Brutus.
Brutus quickly learns to growl and bark and chase. And he becomes a very good guard dog. So Oscar gives him a friendly scratch. Then a tasty treat. And soon, growling and barking and chasing aren’t Brutus’s only jobs. There’s also fetching sticks . . . and keeping Oscar company . . .
And maybe even teaching Oscar a thing or two about love.
From the creator of the beloved Harold the Bear series, Love Finds a Way is a joyous and heartwarming celebration of friendship and the power of love.
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A curmudgeonly yellow bird's best efforts to avoid affection result in an opposite outcome in a friendship story that underscores love's indomitable qualities. Oscar, who, inexplicably, has "always worried that one day love would find him," tries various tactics for avoiding a group of overzealous squirrels; when those fail, he reverts to getting a "ferocious guard dog" called Brutus. While he trains Brutus to alarm others, he unwittingly begins forming an attachment with the canine. And when the pup temporarily goes missing, Oscar awakens to the notion that love may not be something to fear after all. Muddy, muted coloring texturizes rough-hewn mixed-media renderings, which comically convey the lengths Oscar goes to avoid his woodland fans. After the two friends eventually reunite, the palette gently lightens, and heart-shaped butterflies fill the air, revealing Kousky's quirky spin on the title's takeaway. Ages 3–6.
