Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Bear's Merry Book of Hidden Things by Gergely Dudas - ADVISABLE

Dudas, Gergely Bear's Merry Book of Hidden Things. PICTURE BOOK. Harper Collins, 2017. $14.99. 

Bear is getting ready for a holiday party and needs help finding everything a good party requires. Each following page has a busy illustration--think Where's Waldo?--and the reader gets to search for the missing item: a stocking in a pile of mittens, a pine cone in a crowd of hedgehogs, etc. The final page is the planned-for party, featuring characters from the other search-and-find pages. 

This is the kind of book that, when done right, is a hit for elementary-age audiences; this book is done right. I loved looking for the missing items and appreciated that they're not all easy to find! This is a fun choice for anyone's Christmas library collection.

EL (K-3), EL--ADVISABLE. Reviewer: TC

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