Breaking News: Bear Alert [Hardcover]

We interrupt your day for this breaking news. . .

Two bears awaken from hibernation and go to town—literally. During their visit, they eat at a diner, dress up at a department store, and stop a couple of bank robbers, all the while mistaking the townspeople’s terror for friendliness. The news-reporting-style of storytelling puts readers in the action and on the edge of their seats. Illustrations jam-packed with puns, clues, and jokes will have the whole family or classroom laughing out loud and eager to find out what happens next—will the bears terrorize the town? Will the cat burglars be caught? Will the city come to a grinding halt?

Tune in to find out.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled day.Curious bears trigger a media frenzy. It all starts when Jean Louis, the host of the kids' showOur Furry Planet, pokes a sleeping bear. The bear rears up, startled. Jean Louis flees, and the bear's not far behind. He and a pal perch atop theOur Furry Planettruck gleefully, with arms in the air as if riding a roller coaster. Across the bottom of every double-page spread, updates appear in a blue ribbon, just like on the TV news channels. Except here, the updates are dire while the bears are clearly no threat. As people run screaming through the streets, the bears calmly take in the sights. When two terrified kids abandon their toy vehicles, the bears happily jump on. (Mom's so excited to be on television she doesn't notice a thing.) In hats and human clothes, the bears go unnoticed at a department store. (Hysterically, the mail bear's outfit resembles Paddington's, while the female's dress looks an awful lot like the Berenstains' Mother Bear's.) Outside, the bears make a beeline for an ice cream truck, inadvertently interfering with robbers making a getaway. In an instant, the bears go from fugitives to media darlings. Biedrzycki delivers a genuine message with a light touch. His Adobe Photoshlc