Find Fergus
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Play the funniest game of hide and seek ever with Fergus, a bear who's very, very bad at hiding.
The hilarious illustrator of I Don't Want to Be a Frog brings picture book fans a super-silly, interactive story that will have children giggling from start to finish. Follow huge, loveable Fergus and see all the many ways in which he is TERRIBLE at playing hide-and-seek, such as standing behind a VERY tiny tree ("Found you, Fergus! That was too easy!") or trying to camouflage in a giant crowd of bunnies and squirrels ("Try bears, Fergus. Bears!").
But wait! The game isn't over yet! The last two pages fold out into a giant panoramic look-and-find scene, where Fergus is well and truly hidden, and young readers can have fun looking for him and lots of other details in the the crowd. There are hours and hours of play value in this adorable book. Children will want to come back to it again and again.
★ Winner: Iowa Library Association Bridge to Reading Award, 2022
★ Winner: Kentucky Bluegrass Award, 2021
★ Winner: Indiana Early Literacy Firefly Award, 2022
★ Nominee: Missouri Building Block Award, 2022
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Will bespectacled brown bear Fergus ever get the hang of hiding? There he is, on the very first page, staring right at readers with a big goofy grin. "Fergus!" writes Boldt (Bad Dog), channeling the kind of mock indignation that the target audience relishes. "We already found you! That was too easy. Try hiding again." Concealment at the page's margin and with a passel of polar bears is a total bust, but Fergus never gives up a subtle nudge to readers who find their own attempts at mastery frustrating. Finally something clicks in a "ONE. LAST. TIME" double gatefold, where the ever-exuberant Boldt pulls out all the stops: Fergus hides amid all the animals who have appeared with him on previous spreads a plethora of elephants, bears, moose, squirrels, rabbits, as well as a fox and duck and he's all but invisible. Here is living, if silly, proof that by keeping one's furry shoulder to the wheel, success can be achieved. The book concludes with now confident Fergus's list of other items that readers can seek and find in the final gatefold, including "a squirrel carrying a rabbit who is carrying another rabbit." Ages 3 7.
