About This Book:
Can gruff and grumpy Bear cheer up his usually upbeat friend Mouse? With signature with and whimsy, this delightfully mismatched duo is back in a much-anticipated seventh story!
One fall day Bear is getting ready to have a picnic with Mouse. But when it’s time to leave together, there is no tap, tap, tapping on Bear’s front door. Where is Mouse, small and gray and bright-eyed? Bear sets out to meet him on the path, only to find his friend sitting alone on a stump, looking sad, lamenting the changes of the season—leaves falling, flowers dying, birds migrating. “I don’t like it when things go away,” Mouse says quietly. How can the curmudgeonly Bear cheer up his usually cheery friend? With characteristic warmth, this perfectly paced story of friendship, difficult feelings, and a well-meaning role reversal meets the healing power of laughter in the masterful hands of Bonny Becker and Kady MacDonald Denton.
*Review Contributed by Karen Yingling, Staff Reviewer*
The pictures echo the fall weather, with blue and then gray skies, autumn shades of leaves, and even plenty of mud rendered in watercolor, ink, and gouache. It’s hard to be too sad with such pretty backgrounds, but both Mouse and Bear certainly can pull grumpy faces!
If fall is your favorite season, it’s always fun to see books set against the brilliant yellows and oranges of fall leaves. This long running series about friends Bear and Mouse will delight fans of picture book duos like Lobel’s Frog and Toad, Willems’ Elephant and Piggie, or Barclay’s Sheep Dog and Sheep Sheep.
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