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Bonnett-Rampersaud, Louise

Never Ask a Bear

32 pp. | HarperCollins | September, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-112876-9 $16.99
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Doris Barrette. A boy shares ten rules for hosting a bear (e.g., "DON'T play ball outside with a bear"); rhyming text explains each rule, and clean-lined illustrations support the argument (the bear's ball demolishes a neighbor's birthday cake). The narrator's matter-of-factness regarding the animal's human behavior favorably recalls If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and others of its ilk.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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