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32 pp.
| Holt |
June, 2005 |
TradeISBN 0-8050-7010-9$15.95
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Illustrated by
Dan Andreasen.
Two of young children's abiding obsessions--animals and firefighting--are fed in this look at a team of bears who spend their days protecting the neighborhood. There's no cumulative payoff--the story amounts to a series of disasters narrowly averted--but the rhymes snap and the illustrations offer the right blend of menace (smoking buildings) and reassurance (toylike bears).