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If you have not picked up A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker and illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton then I highly recommend that you go find it next time you’re out.  It is so cute!

No one ever comes to Bear’s house.  And he quite likes it that way.  He doesn’t like visitors and to make sure that it stays that way he has a big “No Visitors Allowed” sign on his door.  One morning, he hears a tap on his front door.  When he opens the door there was a small, gray, bright-eyed mouse.  “Go away,” says the bear and goes back to making his breakfast.  But the mouse keeps popping up in the most unexpected places.  When he first finds the mouse in the cupboard, he asks for a spot of tea.  “Out” commands the bear and shows him the door.  And again and again and again.  The mouse finds his way back in the house and each time the bear shows him the door.  Bear boards up the windows, stops up the chimney and even plugs the drain in the bathtub.  But there’s the mouse!  Will he ever be able to get rid of him?  And will he regret it if he does?

So delightful.  A perfect book to read-a-loud.  Young ones will love to find the mouse as he manages his way back into the house.  A beautiful story about friendship.  And the illustrations.  The illustrations!  Kady MacDonald Denton has created the cutest book with soft colors done in watercolor, ink, and qouache.  There are several more Bear and Mouse books in the works and that’s a good thing because you won’t be able to get enough of them.  A Visitor for Bear was nominated for a Cybils award and at our recent Children’s Literature Book Club meeting where we discussed all the nominated books, this book was everybody’s clear favorite.

Loved it!  And guess what?  Tomorrow is an interview with Bonny Becker!  So excited!  This book is one of my favorite picture books this past year, so it’s fun to talk with Bonny.  I can’t wait to share it with you.

Bonny Becker website and Kady MacDonald Denton website.  Bonny is also the author of  The Christmas Crocodile (my book review), My Brother, The Robot (my book review), Holbrook: A Lizard’s Tale (my book review), Just a Minute, An Ant’s Day Off (my book review).

Seriously.  Somebody tell me that they don’t like this book.  Because I don’t think you would dare.

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