The Very Sleepy Bear
ISBN: 9781743812549
Australian: Yes
Published: 2017 by Scholastic
Level: Early Years (R-2)
All this lovely bear wants to do is curl up and hibernate for the winter. The cheeky red fox is luring him into an alternative home for the winter telling the sleepy big bear he needs something bigger: A great big bear like you …so big and strong and brave, a creature so magnificent…deserves a bigger cave. After a number of failed attempts to rehouse, Bear returns home to find fox and his friends have moved into his cave. Unconcerned he asks them to wake him up in spring…'and by the way…I snore. A great rhyming read with lovely, warm, soft colours between bright orange endpapers.