Picture Book Spotlight: No Bears

Picture Book Spotlight is an original weekly post that will highlight relevant and/or popular picture books and suggest age groups and storytime themes for them. It will also include a mini-review.

Title: No Bears Authors: Leila Rudge Pages:32 Audience: K-2 Themes: fantasy, fairytales, stories, books, humor

Summary:                                                      

Ruby wants to tell you a story. A story with absolutely no bears. You don’t need bears for a book. You need pretty things like fairies and princesses and castles. And maybe funny things and exciting things – but definitely no bears!

My Thoughts: I love this book! A little girl named Ella decides to us a story with absolutely NO bears in it, because she doesn't think you need them, even though they always show up. As she tells her story, we can see in the pictures that a lovely, friendly bear has indeed crept into it, although Ella doesn't notice. Just when the princess of her story is about to be kidnapped by a monster, "someone" saves her. Ella thinks it is the fairy godmother, but we can see the bear's sleeve :). The illustrations have lots of warm, natural colors, and remind me a little of Oliver Jeffers. This book will probably be a hit with most little girls and could be used for an early elementary story time