Ross Collins is a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art and has illustrated more than one hundred books for children and written a few, too. He lives in Scotland, where he likes walking in the Scottish glens with his dog, Hugo, who is an idiot, and his partner, Jacqui, who is not.
There's a Bear on My Chair
Board Book
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- ISBN-13: 9781536200140
- Publisher: Candlewick Press
- Publication date: 03/13/2018
- Pages: 24
- Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 7.00(h) x (d)
- Age Range: 2 - 5 Years
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Poor Mouse! A bear has settled in his favorite chair, and that chair just isn’t big enough for two. Mouse tries all kinds of tactics to move pesky Bear, but nothing works. Once Mouse has gone, Bear gets up and walks home. But what’s that? Is that a mouse in Bear’s house?
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Publishers Weekly
★ 06/06/2016A playful portrait of impotent rage, Collins’s (The Elephantom) rhyming story looks at what happens when a problem is just too big to tackle. A huge lunk of a polar bear has taken a liking to a mouse’s chair; it’s comically small for him, and he spills over the sides. The bear gives a gleeful wave to readers as the mouse fumes: “He is so big,/ it’s hard to share./ There isn’t any/ room to spare.” While the bear reads the newspaper and models his Elvis costume (“He has fine taste in leisure wear,/ I’m fond of how he does his hair”), the mouse rants and schemes, tempting the bear with treats, then making other plans (“Maybe I’ll give him a scare—/ I’ll jump out in my underwear!”). Unimpressed, the bear checks his phone. The encounter ends with a neat reversal of circumstances in a nearby igloo. Collins’s drawings win laughs with confident, swooping lines and witty details (the silver tips on the collar of the bear’s Elvis shirt), and his sparkling verse has the ring of a nursery classic. Ages 2–5. (Aug.)
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A playful portrait of impotent rage, Collins’s (The Elephantom) rhyming story looks at what happens when a problem is just too big to tackle...Collins’s drawings win laughs with confident, swooping lines and witty details (the silver tips on the collar of the bear’s Elvis shirt), and his sparkling verse has the ring of a nursery classic.—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Collins' pencil-and-digital illustrations are completely interwoven with the text, enlarging and enhancing the tale with over-the-top humor and expressive body language. The mouse jumps out of a box (in that underwear), offers a juicy pear, glares from atop a ladder, and more. The bear matches these goofy antics as he reads a newspaper, does an Elvis impression, takes a snooze, and checks his cellphone. Silly, laugh-out-loud fun.
—Kirkus Reviews
...delightful, rhyme-filled read that's sure to remind parents of classic Dr. Seuss.
—Pregnancy & Newborn
Children's Literature - Susan Borges
Fanciful, fun, silly, and playful are words that aptly describe this wonderful new book for toddlers, preschoolers, and beginning readers. Bear, a big, white, adorable polar bear, is sitting on little Mouse’s chair and that is causing a problem. As the wonderfully vivid and expressive illustrations clearly show, Bear is quite happy in the chair; and Mouse is very unhappy about the situation. Mouse tries everything he can possibly think of to get Bear to move out of the chair, but to no avail. As Mouse tries harder and harder, he gets increasingly annoyed and finally erupts into a rant and a rage until Bear goes off to his home in a snowy cave where he finds? The simple text in this delightful book is cleverly written in rhymes, making it fun for young children to read along and predict the words at the end of each line. Many of the vocabulary words are not words which preschoolers would use themselves, but young readers will easily learn these new words because of the rhyming, the textual clues, and the richly detailed illustrations that highly support of the meaning of the story. For example, Mouse says Bear is unaware of his nasty glare, and Mouse admits that Bear has flair because of how he wears his hair. The illustration on the same page show Bear proudly sitting on Mouse’s chair, looking into a mirror as he combs his Elvis-like hairdo. Young children will delight in this adorable book about Mouse and Bear and adults will enjoy it also! This is a book, which young readers will want to read and look at over and over again. Reviewer: Susan Borges; Ages 2 to 6.School Library Journal
07/01/2016PreS-Gr 2—Mouse has a problem—someone is on his chair! In a miniature red-and-white sweater, Mouse complains to readers, "There's a bear on my chair. He is so big, it's hard to share," and with a friendly wave, viewers meet a polar bear. Mouse tries various ways to get the bear off his chair, such as "a nasty glare," "a pear," and "a scare," and, finally, in a fit of "despair," Mouse leaves. Bear, finding himself alone, returns to his home of snow and ice to announce, "Hey! There's a mouse in my house." The delightful rhyme and rhythm make this title great fun to read aloud. The text takes up one side of each spread, emphasizing words that appear in red font to convey the escalating emotions. Expressive digital illustrations are placed on single-color backgrounds that help focus readers' attention on the characters' dilemmas. VERDICT A must-purchase and instant classic for storytime and one-on-one sharing. Sure to become a favorite.—Karen Ginman, BookOps: The New York Public Library and Brooklyn Public Library
Kirkus Reviews
2016-05-04A bear has settled himself in a mouse's chair, and nothing will move him.The big polar bear is certainly not unaware that he has usurped the chair, but he seems to be feeling no guilt about it. The sweater-clad mouse speaks directly to readers, airing complaints, making outrageous threats, offering bribes, and throwing tantrums. It even acknowledges that the bear's endangered status calls for some extra care, but the situation is untenable. All the while, the bear is silently self-absorbed. In desperation, the mouse leaves for parts unknown. When the bear finally ambles away, he heads home to his igloo only to find that mouse asleep in his bed. Now the tale has turned, and the bear at last speaks: one, perplexed line. The mouse's one-sided diatribe appears in very large print with key words emphasized in red. Every second line ends in a rhyme with the contested "chair," including "glare," "lair," "hair," even "leisure wear," and (of course) "underwear." Collins' pencil-and-digital illustrations are completely interwoven with the text, enlarging and enhancing the tale with over-the-top humor and expressive body language. The mouse jumps out of a box (in that underwear), offers a juicy pear, glares from atop a ladder, and more. The bear matches these goofy antics as he reads a newspaper, does an Elvis impression, takes a snooze, and checks his cellphone.Silly, laugh-out-loud fun. (Picture book. 2-6)