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Summary
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A New York Times bestseller
Bear and his friends hunt for missing eggs in this new picture book adventure in the bestselling series.
Mama Meadowlark can't find her eggs! Bear and his friends pitch in to help and search high and low. Each time they find an egg, they paint it with bright colors so they don't lose it again and add it to Hare's handy basket. Will they be able to return all the eggs to their mother?
Author Notes
Karma Wilson was an only child who grew up in Idaho and developed a love of reading at an early age. She was reading a novel a day by the age of eleven. Karma never considered a writing career until she and her husband used a tax refund to buy a computer. Determined to make the machine pay for itself, Karma learned to type and decided to try her hand at writing. After countless rejections, Bear Snores On was released in 2002 and made it on both The New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists for children's books. Since then, she has had more than 30 other books accepted for publication. Her title Bear Says Thanks made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (1)
Kirkus Review
In his latest outing, Bear and his pals go in search of eggs. Bear "lumbers with his friends through the Strawberry Vale." Raven finds a nest; climbing up, "The bear finds eggs!": a refrain that appears throughout. Instead of eating the robin's eggs, however, Bear leaves a gift of dried berries in the nest for the "soon-to-be-chicks." Next, the friends find 10 mallard eggs (as bright blue as the robin's), and Bear leaves sunflower seeds. Then the wail of Mama Meadowlark, whose bright yellow undercarriage strikes a warm golden note, leads them to promise to find her lost eggs. With his friends' assistance, Bear finds one, and they decide to paint them "so they aren't lost again." Another is discovered, painted, and placed in Hare's basket. After hours of persistent searching, Bear suddenly spots the remaining two eggs "in a small patch of clover." Before they can return these eggs, the chicks hatch and rejoin their mother. Back at his lair, Bear, with his troupe, is visited by all 17 chicks and the robin, mallard, and meadowlark moms: "And the bear finds friends!" Though this sweet spring tale centers on finding and painting eggs, it makes no overt references to Easter. The soft green and blue acrylics, predictable rhymes, and rolling rhythm make this series installment another low-key natural read-aloud. Cheery fun that will leave series fans "egg"-static. (Picture book. 3-6) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
